Favorite Text Based/Early Graphics PC Game

[FMJeff]

For all the tech-heads out there...

What were some of your favorite text-based adventures? I was a big fan of "A Mind Forever Voyaging". It came with this really cool decoder wheel you could use in with the game...very cool for the mid 80's.

I was also a big fan of the early King's and Space Quest series, back when the computer had to draw every screen the character walked into.

What were some of yours?

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[FUNKMAN]

was Liesure Suit Larry In The Land Of The Longe Lizards one of them?

if so, it's my fav of all time...

the youngins won't remember but you had to:

> find the diamond ring
> gamble to get money to marry
> buy spearmint flavored plaid condoms or you would catch VD and die with the hooker above the bar who you can only meet if you gave the right password which you had to obtain from reading the Ball Street Journal while you copped a squat in the bar bathroom.
> then when you had to give the bum a bottle of wine that you bought at the store so he could give you a knife because after you got married and went to the hotel room with your wife you had to cut the rope that she tied you up with and left you and you had to take the rope back to the hookers place and climb out on the fire escape to swing over to a window that had a bottle of Spanish Fly on the sill which you took to the Security Girl at the Penthouse Suite

those and hundreds of other cool stuff...



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This message was edited by FUNKMAN on 2-4-03 @ 12:11 PM

[nickeye]

Zork, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, and definitely the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

If anyone is interested, I have a freeware translator for Windows that runs old Infocom games, and the data files for a bunch of them. (That may have been the dorkiest thing I've ever said.)

[Thebazile78]

Lords of Conquest, Ultimate Wizard, Mail Order Monsters

Top-3 Games of ALL time!

There was also another one I had that would let you write your own adventure game (published by EA before they went exclusively sports) and "Potty Pidgeon" ruled! When I was 4, we got "Choplifter" which was my favorite game until we got other games.

Needless to say, I only go back as far as th Commodore 64.

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[Wolf]

I was a big fan of the early Commordore 64 games, mostly the role playing stuff, but there were plenty of great games there. Also, had fun with Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail in school. Plus, developing my own text based game back in the early 80s was lots of fun.

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[lippy]

the sands of egypt..you had to discover all sorts of artifacts in pyramids and such. for some reason, this is all I did in my elementary school's gifted class. I wonder if I was really in special ed and they were lying to me.

[angrymissy]

I used to play the Hitchikers guide on the library computer when i was like 8, goodtimes goodtimes

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[TheMojoPin]

Like Jeff said, "Space Quest" is my all time favorite.

After that, I loved the "Monkey Island" series.

"Grim Fandango" is STILL really cool...

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Zork

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[ADF]

Lords of Conquest, Ultimate Wizard, Mail Order Monsters


Mail Order Monsters was a good game, but I think I bought right at the end of my C64's life... stupid diskdrive kept overheating. Hitchiker's Guide was the only text game I ever completed. I always liked the Bard's Tale games.

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[bisqit999]

There was a text game I used to play on the commodore64 called the farmers daughter where you had to try and get laid. I was really young so it was kinda cool back then.

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Jumpman Junior on the Commodore 64

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[SatCam]

I never played any text based games. I guess im too yuong, but I have played some old DOS games, but they werent completely text.

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