[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/vr/ - Retro Games

View post   
File: 38 KB, 640x430, zork-screen_5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2601893 No.2601893 [Reply] [Original]

>/VR/, WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INFOCOM GAME?

>> No.2601901

>>2601893
>>There doesn't seem to be a "what" here.

Play stuff online: http://iplayif.com/

>> No.2601913

>>2601893
Infocom games I have tried:
>Zork I
>Planetfall
>Enchanter
>The Lurking Horror
>Nord and Bert

Infocom games I have completed:
>Suspended
>HGTTG
>Infidel
>Trinity
>A Mind Forever Voyaging

Among those, I would say that Trinity stands out as the best, easily. And I was SO close to beating it entirely without hints, but missed something about 10 minutes from the end that caused me to get stuck. Argh.

I enjoyed Infidel quite a bit. It's much less ambitious and kind of stripped down compared to the more sprawling puzzlefests, but I liked the tomb raiding aspect and grounded puzzles.

>> No.2601916

>THANK ANON FOR THE LINK

Which link did you want to thank the anon for, the sweet link, the brass link, the crappy link, or the elvish link?

>SWEET

>> No.2601920

>>2601901
cool, wasn't aware of that one. thanks!

>> No.2601926
File: 80 KB, 461x462, sadcat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2601926

>TELL FRIENDS ABOUT TEXT ADVENTURES
The friends don't seem interested in the text adventures.

>SHOW GOOD PUZZLES TO FRIENDS
The friends don't seem interested in the good puzzles.

>ASK FRIENDS ABOUT TEXT ADVENTURES
"Text adventures? Those old things? Always putting you in mazes and frustrating you with 'you can't get ye flask' parser problems. They died for a reason."

>PUNCH FRIENDS
Violence isn't the answer to this one. There is no answer to this one.

>> No.2601940

>>2601901
FYI, I'm pretty sure that site won't have any Infocom games, because Infocom games are still not available freely. But you can play a lot of the ones the community has written.

>> No.2602001

Bureaucracy without question. It was sublime then and is still funny as hell.

>> No.2602216

>>2601940
It does have the original Zork, but nothing else.

>> No.2602260

>>2601893
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception
BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Revenge

>> No.2602323
File: 114 KB, 931x489, TQ103RescueMirkwoodMap1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2602323

>>2601926
Hey sadcat, you can subvert your unimaginative friends with gamebooks (those don't need parser).
http://www.projectaon.org
http://www.arborell.com
Home of the Underdogs also had a bunch of old 80's gamebooks scanned (there are mirrors of course...)

>> No.2602332

>>2601940
Most of the Amiga ports are free (legit) from back2roots.abime.net. Not all the Infocom games, but most of them are there.

>> No.2602582

>>2602323
Lone Wolf, holy shit. My brother and I were all about those back in the day.

>> No.2602594

>>2601893
Spellbreaker

>> No.2603160

>>2602323
Yeah, but the parser is kind of the point. Gamebooks are cool and all, but not really the same type of thing.

Despite the lame-o term "interactive fiction" that people like to use, the Infocom games were mostly straightforward adventure games. Explore and solve puzzles, sometimes with good writing and humor, but not exactly literature.

>> No.2603184

Bureaucracy. Had Hitchiker's Guide on my C64 as a kid and that's what got me started. Wish Activision would stop sitting on these and do a proper Steam release - yeah, I know you can acquire them by other methods but just for the sake of convenient play. What do they do instead though? Release it for fucking iphone/ipad, so you can use the virtual touchscreen keyboard. Thanks a billion, acti-dudes. A nice package for steam with artwork, scanned feelies you can access during play to get clues from, maybe invisiclues, screen res options (like render the client like a C64 or Apple IIe screen, etc.) and maybe even 3D models of said computers.

>> No.2603213

>>2601893
>1980's
>be at electronics botique
>pick c64 game off shelf that looks neat
>SUSPECT by Infocom
>sister tells me i won't like it because no graphics all text
>ignore here and spend my birthday money on it anyway

Best. Decision. Ever.

>> No.2604425

Zork 1 and Bureaucracy

>> No.2604426

Can anyone tell my how the fuck you get the LOGIN and PASSWORD in The Lurking Horror? I admit to cheating to get it.....

>> No.2604604

>>2603184
>Had Hitchiker's Guide on my C64 as a kid and that's what got me started
Yes so did I and the load times were........oh boy. This is a game that really would have been better on PCs where you had 80 column text and hard disks.

>> No.2604636
File: 4 KB, 640x400, the_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2604636

>>2604604
Was C64 disk drive slow or something? Or maybe you just loaded from tape?

These kind of text games ran fine on Amstrad CPC (which did have 80-column mode, and floppy drive).

I guess probably also C128 would have worked ok. Actually even old CP/M machines could play this kind of game.

>> No.2604721

>>2604636
>Was C64 disk drive slow or something?

Jesus fucking Christ, yes. 1541 drives were hell on earth.

>I guess probably also C128 would have worked ok

They did because the later "Gold" editions of Infocom games had C128 support which meant 80 column text, support for the faster 1571 drive, and more memory so not as much disk access.

>> No.2604743

>>2604721
The original 1984 release of HHGTTG for the Commodore 64 has a light gray background; the gold edition (two years later) has a black background. Main way you can tell them apart. We had the original 84 version.

>> No.2604746

>>2604743
Probably changed to improve contrast.

>> No.2604750

>>2604746
I agree. It's been a good two decades, but I seem to remember the text being rather hard to read, especially since the computer was being used with an old 12" B&W TV.