I'm sure hoping to be able to rent it:Get LampAnybody else have fond memories of Infocom adventures? Loading up "Zork" into your 1541 drive for the very first time? Laughing at the antics of Floyd? Tearing your hair out playing "Bureaucracy"? What were your favorites? (Anybody else got WinFrotz running and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" loaded up?)
I'm more of a "Monkey Island" kind of guy.
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I would never have guessed.
Hitchhikers and Zork were my very first purchased computer games. I scoffed at the price, but got so much more than the $30 each (approx) I paid. Rawr
Hitchhikers Guide Planetfall (on the Apple ][+)SuspendedInfidelLeather Goddesses of PhobosI have to admit that I never got into the Zork series.
I loves me some Monkey Island! I'm hoping they'll make another one. *crossing fingers and tail*
You know about Tales of monkey island, right?
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards was the first computer game I ever played. We had it loaded on a computer at work, and used to take in turns playing it in our lunch hours.
Oh, hindsight, where you for me 25 years ago?Back when all the cool kids were mashing away on the joystick buttons of their Atari2600 and ColecoVision consoles, I attended an after-school class to learn the basics of BASIC on a PET. During breaks we were "allowed" to mess around in one of the games, which I likened to the then-popular Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books. The difference between the books and the game was that I could always get somewhere in the books, even if just to an ending.I got nowhere in the game; I soon tired of going around in a 4-room circle during the 15 minutes allowed to us, and ended up resorting to nonsense commands that someone (probably facetiously, I can admit) told me I should try: talk table... go wall... eat dirt... use knob...To this day, it haunts me that maybe I just never found the right object/command combination to escape that 4-room circle.But I can still launch an armada of BASIC rockets:10? "/\"20? "||"30? "||"40? "/||\"50 goto10
MeanMrMustard saidWhat were your favorites?
Were? Some of them still are! And I still play some modern IF games: Anchorhead, Bronze, Lost pig (that was a funny one)... At the moment I'm struggling with The King of Shreds and Patches.
jago saidI attended an after-school class to learn the basics of BASIC on a PET
Ahh BASIC. The hours spent typing in pages & pages of BASIC from a magazine only to find it doesn't run because you missed a colon out somewhere...GRRRBut the Hobbit was my first text adventure on a BBC B computer. Still got it somewhere in the garage./hijack