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Every Known Version of Every Infocom Adventure

not_on_display — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:32:00 -0800

Welcome to the complete online Infocom adventures page 0/0 >LOOK Here you can find and play online every known version of every Infocom adventure. What next? >▂

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

not_on_display — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:02:14 -0800

SLYTFilter: MC Frontalot - "It is Pitch Dark"
You are likely to be eaten by a grue. / If this predicament seems particularly cruel, / Consider whose fault it could be, / Not a torch or a match in your inventory.
Directed by MeFi's Own™ Jason Scott for his documentary about text adventures, GET LAMP. [previously] Featuring MC Frontalot [previously] and Steve Meretzky. More grues on MeFi.

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all squalid

mhum — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:47:14 -0800

An essay on the horrors of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure® story. Here are links to some of the things you might see or hear about on your adventure through the squalid and incomprehensible hallways of the Port Authority Bus Terminal (Spoilers Ahead!): A World Trade Center memorial created by a Master Corporal of the Canadian Armed Forces A Wyland Whaling Wall A statue of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden George Segal's sculpture The Commuters, Next Departure Norman B. Colp's, The Commuter's Lament Leisure Time Bowling Center A statue of Fiorello LaGuardia in Greenwich Village

I don't know how to plug butt.

tehloki — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:51:43 -0800

Don't Shit Your Pants: A survival horror game

>find pig

not_on_display — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:37:02 -0800

Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. Boss say Grunk go find pig, bring it back. Him say, if Grunk not bring back pig, not bring back Grunk either. Grunk like working at pig farm, so now Grunk need find pig. >_

Get Lamp

SpacemanStix — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:42:27 -0800

"GET LAMP is a documentary about Text Adventures (later Interactive Fiction), the storytellers who created them, and their unique place in the history of computer games." Although not completed yet (it will be soon, as filming was completed in October), this documentary will contain 76 interviews with people involved in the industry at the time, including Scott Adams (not the cartoonist), Marc Blanc and Tim Anderson (who both worked on Zork, one of the best known examples of the medium) . Here's a teaser trailer. And here are some fun representatives of the genre to play online.

I was cheering for Lost Pig, too.

flatluigi — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:46:30 -0800

To celebrate the results of this year's IF Comp, why not check out the entries on the new Interactive Fiction Database? Previously. Other IF Comps.

You are here. Do you have your towel?

WolfDaddy — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:52:30 -0800

The 20th Anniversary Edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure is online, and the BBC has jazzed it up. A bit.

The 1893 World's Fair Mystery

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:34:17 -0800

The 1893 World's Fair has been recreated in loving detail by Peter Nepstad of The Illuminated Lantern, in his game 1893: A World's Fair Mystery. The reviews are in, and they're mostly positive, no small surprise considering it's a text adventure.

grumblebee — Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:17:30 -0800

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike...

Shadowkeeper — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 07:50:51 -0800

9:05 Remember back in the heyday of Infocom when you would routinely spend four or five days straight (subsisting on RC cola and beef jerky, only taking breaks to visit the john) trying to crack all the puzzles in Zork II or Suspended? Yeah, those were the days. Now, of course, you're a busy guy -- you can no longer devote entire weekends to the joys of text adventuring. That's why, today on your coffee break, you should play Adam Cadre's 9:05. Playing the entire game, from start to finish, should take you no longer than 10 minutes. But set aside a bit more time, because you'll probably want to play it again.

destro — Tue, 06 Nov 2001 10:09:26 -0800

All this interest in Zork has reminded me of the old days of lo-fi games like Moria. And don't forget the other text adventure games like The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Adventure Game, always a favorite mainly because I read the book. Any others out there worthy of note?

tweebiscuit — Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:56:58 -0800

Remember Zork, Planetfall, and the other creations of late game company Infocom? Well, "interactive fiction," as the format is called, is still alive and well. Every year the IF community -- which is known for releasing work of quality far surpassing even Infocom's masterpieces -- holds a competition for short works, and this year's contestants have been released! Read this post's comments for more info...