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  • Dead Cyborg - scifi adventure gameHi! I love the text adventures from the old times and I am a game developer. :) So... I am working on a first person view scifi adventure game. The …

    ... how they loved "[I]the text adventures from the old times[/I ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman May 2011 Chit chat
  • TAB - Text Adventure BuilderOk. I wasn't exactly sure which forum to post this, so mods feel free to move to relevant section.. Remember all those old text adventures written w…

    ... jump right in and develop adventures with it without having to ... of tools available for writing text adventures.
    chev chev May 2011 Games
  • TAB - Text Adventure BuilderOk. I wasn't exactly sure which forum to post this, so mods feel free to move to relevant section.. Remember all those old text adventures written w…

    ... jump right in and develop adventures with it without having to ... of tools available for writing text adventures.[/QUOTE]

    A lot ...
    catventure catventure May 2011 Games
  • TAB - Text Adventure BuilderOk. I wasn't exactly sure which forum to post this, so mods feel free to move to relevant section.. Remember all those old text adventures written w…

    ... jump right in and develop adventures with it without having to ... of tools available for writing text adventures.[/QUOTE]

    Hi aowen ...
    catventure catventure May 2011 Games
  • ANN: Spectaculator for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPadHi all, Spectaculator is now available for the iPhohe, iPod Touch & iPad! It features the same high quality emulation developed for the Windows' ve…

    ... speedups for the likes of text adventures.

    I'd love ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker May 2011 Announcements
  • Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…

    ... release loads but has garbled graphics and text. I made a snapshot ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu May 2011 Games
  • Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …

    ... widely accepted practice that in text adventures players can be killed off ...
    Timmy Timmy June 2011 Games
  • The Hulk adventure game. "Bite Lip"??Who remembers this? To turn into the Hulk you had to type "bite lip"! The thing is, you had to do this right at the beginning to escape the chair to …

    ... those stupid Marvel super hero text adventures?
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2011 Games
  • The Hulk adventure game. "Bite Lip"??Who remembers this? To turn into the Hulk you had to type "bite lip"! The thing is, you had to do this right at the beginning to escape the chair to …

    the only text adventures I had back in the ... the day I stoped playing text adventure games
    VanTammen VanTammen June 2011 Games
  • The Hulk adventure game. "Bite Lip"??Who remembers this? To turn into the Hulk you had to type "bite lip"! The thing is, you had to do this right at the beginning to escape the chair to …

    ... biting his lip?
    Theose adventures hilst quite fun were obtuse ... . In fact the number of text adventures that could be completed without ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley June 2011 Games
  • Final full price commercially marketed gameDoes anyone have any idea what the last full price commercially marketed game on the ZX Spectrum was and by which company also year and month of rele…

    ... lot of obscure titles, mainly text adventures produced by small independent companies ... 't it?)
    [*]The Amazing Adventures Of Robin Hood - Code Masters ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu June 2011 Games
  • A Pointless Propotional Font demoSomething I've made the last couple of days, which is probably completely pointless, but might be a bit amusing. It's also not worthy of posting thi…

    Excellent work. Love the way the font looks (already commented on it in the original font thread). With or without images, this is how text should appear in all text adventures.
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2011 Development
  • The Hulk adventure game. "Bite Lip"??Who remembers this? To turn into the Hulk you had to type "bite lip"! The thing is, you had to do this right at the beginning to escape the chair to …

    ... ; Hampstead one of the greatest text adventures ever , was almost ruined by ... said before , but the best text adventures by far are Infocom's ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley June 2011 Games
  • A Pointless Propotional Font demoSomething I've made the last couple of days, which is probably completely pointless, but might be a bit amusing. It's also not worthy of posting thi…

    ... GAC adventures that were never released for the ZX-Spectrum. This text ... of Atari ST adventures could be ported in text-only mode without ... , this is how text should appear in all text adventures.[/QUOTE]

    Timmy Timmy June 2011 Development
  • Complete Games List 'Where!'Where can I get a complete editable list/database of all Spectrum Games Thanks in advance to anyone who can help

    ... .org/textadv/index.html]ARCHIVE - TEXT ADVENTURES[/url] as well, and even ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2011 Games
  • Student looks for material stuff to do with 80s gameplayHi everyone, Thanks to everyone for their help in advance by the way! I'll be posting this message or something like it on other retro gaming forums …

    This thread mentions extra items that came with Spectrum text adventures:
    [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34074[/url]
    Strident Strident July 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Student looks for material stuff to do with 80s gameplayHi everyone, Thanks to everyone for their help in advance by the way! I'll be posting this message or something like it on other retro gaming forums …

    ... to the info about the text adventures. Much appreciated!

    To ...
    Hagarack Hagarack July 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Hulk adventure game. "Bite Lip"??Who remembers this? To turn into the Hulk you had to type "bite lip"! The thing is, you had to do this right at the beginning to escape the chair to …

    This seems relevant:

    [url]http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-08-retrospective-text-adventures-article[/url]
    StuBruise StuBruise July 2011 Games
  • The Hulk adventure game. "Bite Lip"??Who remembers this? To turn into the Hulk you had to type "bite lip"! The thing is, you had to do this right at the beginning to escape the chair to …

    ... /articles/2011-07-08-retrospective-text-adventures-article[/url][/QUOTE]

    Timmy Timmy July 2011 Games
  • Best portable Spectrum emulatorI've got an Android with Marvin but the lack of buttons makes it just useful for looking at games, not playing them. What's the best way so that I ca…

    ... suddenly going to get into text adventures it probably wouldn't be ...
    thingley thingley July 2011 Emulators
  • New txt adventuresAhoy! Having not been on WOS for quite a while I'm overwhelmingly impressed with the amount of new Speccy games being release. It really seems to ha…

    ... whether there are any new text adventures being released and do any ... new software houses specialise in text adventures? It would be ace to ...
    mheide mheide July 2011 Games
  • Improving existing games by hacking?Certain ZX-Spectrum games are already too close to perfection so it seems nothing else could be changed within the hardware limitations to make them …

    Hurrah!

    A question: are the Spanish and Russian language translations (different game engines, IIRC, not just hacks) of Artic's text adventures considered to be mods?
    Alarm Alarm July 2011 New game ideas
  • Improving existing games by hacking?Certain ZX-Spectrum games are already too close to perfection so it seems nothing else could be changed within the hardware limitations to make them …

    ... just hacks) of Artic's text adventures considered to be mods?[/QUOTE ...
    mheide mheide July 2011 New game ideas
  • Games you had at the time, but didn't appreciate until laterThere are a few Speccy games that I had at the time, but didn't realise how playable they were until many years later when I took a fresh look. A co…

    ... end of that - I hated text adventures at the time.

    Mousey Mousey July 2011 Games
  • Games you had at the time, but didn't appreciate until laterThere are a few Speccy games that I had at the time, but didn't realise how playable they were until many years later when I took a fresh look. A co…

    ... end of that - I hated text adventures at the time.[/QUOTE]
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones July 2011 Games
  • A couple of Quill AdventuresI have two Quill adventure games that I made in the mid/late 90s and wondered if there would be an audience for them and, if so, where they should be…

    ... always liked quite short quilled adventures that were a bit silly ... was often a prob with text adventures.
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek August 2011 Brand new software
  • Speccy OriginalityJust for fun, I was trying to think of a modern game (on any platform, inc Android etc...) for which there *isn't* something comparable on the Speccy…

    [QUOTE=GreenCard;553515]Aha! Got one! [I]Heavy Rain[/I]! :grin:[/QUOTE]

    weren't they just all text adventures, no actual gameplay involved. :p
    mile mile August 2011 Games
  • there are 10,000+ games in the archiveabout 1 month ago I realised it broke the 10K barrier (and that's not even including text adventures)... obviously some have "never released" and som…

    ... , Theatre Europe,any number of text adventures I havent got around to ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley August 2011 Games
  • Text adventure games with small maps and logical puzzlesLooking for text adventure recommendations for games that don't have too much mapping but have a good set of logical puzzles.

    ... , bloody annoying those things are, text adventure author cheap way of ... of the most well written text adventures I've ever played. Some ... is just about the perfect text adventure. Logical puzzles , relatively easy ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek August 2011 Games
  • Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…

    ... I really that crap at text adventures?? :D
    deadpan666 deadpan666 September 2011 New game ideas
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