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  • Games where you had no idea what you were supposed to do... but played anyway.Whilst browsing the archive for something new to play, I came across Tir Na Nog, which prompted the above question. I had Tir Na Nog as part of the …

    [QUOTE=zxbruno;347566]Same here!
    And don't get me started on Text Adventures. I wasted many hours trying to talk to something even though I knew it didn't had real A.I.[/QUOTE]

    yes, playing like this, I enjoyed "Redhawk" a lot.
    Arda Arda April 2009 Games
  • speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…

    ... . I used to write crummy text adventures with many GOTO commands and ...
    Danforth Danforth April 2009 Games
  • Game of the decade?Hi all, As this decade is fast drawing to a close at an astonishing rate of one day per day, I'm hoping to do a major retrospective of 'the naughtie…

    ... -round quality.

    In text adventures, Lee Tonk's game On ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack April 2009 Games
  • Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…

    It wouldn't happen to be entirely attribute-based, by any chance?
    Because that's just being lazy. If the screen is going to be blocky attributes, you should at least be flashing OUT 254 to extend the blocky graphics into the top and bottom border.
    joefish joefish May 2009 Development
  • Fastest Block Drawing Code?Following on from my scrolling thread [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=351304#post351304"](http://www.worldofspectrum.org…

    ... some stats on the source graphics first and fill the registers ... sophisticated encoder to convert source graphics into this code. I did something ...
    omega omega May 2009 Development
  • Listing of illustrated text adventuresThere are various text adventures that feature pictures alongside, often created with The Illustrator. Although SPOT treats these as a different genr…

    ... them flagged. They are all text adventures in the end.
    Arda Arda May 2009 Games
  • Crashable Spectrum games?Following the discussion at: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24821[/url] I was wondering what Spectrum games could be m…

    Typing 'f### off' in quite a few text adventures caused a reset.
    beanz beanz May 2009 Games
  • Crashable Spectrum games?Following the discussion at: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24821[/url] I was wondering what Spectrum games could be m…

    ... ### off' in quite a few text adventures caused a reset.[/QUOTE]
    joefish joefish May 2009 Games
  • New Game Biohell Available On Friday + Competition!!Yep, that's right, Biohell for the Speccy is available this Friday 1st May from my website [url]www.andyremic.com[/url]. It's a free download, and t…

    ... much I truly suck at Text adventures...

    That was just ...
    deadpan666 deadpan666 May 2009 Games
  • New Game Biohell Available On Friday + Competition!!Yep, that's right, Biohell for the Speccy is available this Friday 1st May from my website [url]www.andyremic.com[/url]. It's a free download, and t…

    ... some feedback on the game. Text adventures are *always* too hard for ... 's black background with black text, meaning it needs highlighting to ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington May 2009 Games
  • Games that were released as Text adventures...but it would've been great, if not better, if they had been released as action, not text games? I know text games have action too, but you know wh…

    ... machine , I would say that text adventures make for a better translation ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley May 2009 Games
  • Games that were released as Text adventures...but it would've been great, if not better, if they had been released as action, not text games? I know text games have action too, but you know wh…

    ... ]

    Mostly pretty bad text adventures, so probably very likely to ...
    JGW JGW May 2009 Games
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…

    ... not being too good at text adventures, sometimes it really is the ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek May 2009 Games
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…

    ... generally I'm crap at text adventures, especially ones that kill you ...
    Vertigo Vertigo May 2009 Games
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…

    Some text adventures are simply too hard and ... it. I still like some adventures such as rebel planet and ...
    zx1 zx1 May 2009 Games
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…

    Not a Speccy game, but as far as text adventures go I still love Erik the Unready for the PC, totally bizarre pisstake of all things medieval :D
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek May 2009 Games
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…

    ... be honest, I would find text adventures a lot more enjoyable (note ...
    Vertigo Vertigo May 2009 Games
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…

    ... . I couldn't believe the text required to open the brown ... agree with DWAYNE DIBLEY that text adventures should be challenging, but not ... (if we are talking English text games). But also there should ...
    ColinChan ColinChan May 2009 Games
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…

    ... . I couldn't believe the text required to open the brown ... agree with DWAYNE DIBLEY that text adventures should be challenging, but not ... (if we are talking English text games). But also there should ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley May 2009 Games
  • ZX Spectrum arcade machine[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=Bo2FJ2ySC7A[/url] Anyone remember the Nintendo Playchoice 10 arcade machine? This was basically a 2 screen…

    ... versions knocking about.

    text adventures would be a little crap ...
    mile mile June 2009 Games
  • Project Natal?Project Natal (at: [url]http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/[/url] [url]http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-project-natal/50013[/url] …

    ... standard set of words (like text adventures)

    nothing wrong with ...
    mile mile June 2009 Chit chat
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... " puzzle, as often found in text adventures. If you have anything at ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2009 Games
  • Crime gameswhat are the top five games in which you play a criminal/crime boss? Are there any really good ones where you can commit lots of different crimes? A…

    ... to ban about 70% of text adventures from the WoS archive :lol ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu June 2009 Games
  • Crime gameswhat are the top five games in which you play a criminal/crime boss? Are there any really good ones where you can commit lots of different crimes? A…

    [QUOTE=Alessandro Grussu;361269]Such an insane amount of political correctness would be enough to ban about 70% of text adventures from the WoS archive :lol:[/QUOTE]

    he he, lol. :-D
    mile mile June 2009 Games
  • Things you weren't supposed to do in games but were fun nonethelessYes, you should [i]not[/i] have done certain things, actually many of them were just plain silly, but they were fun anyway :D Some examples: [list]Zz…

    telling text adventures to f off.
    mile mile June 2009 Games
  • Love it or hate it.Just a question, what games divide opinion by which people tend to love them or hate them? One example on the C64 would be the Shoot-em up Delta, wha…

    ... , going back to whole genres, text adventures were either a love or ...
    Fizza Fizza July 2009 Games
  • GAC QuestionThere is probably a really simple way of doing this but its driving me up the wall. In GAC is there a way of ending the game ( you get killed ) if y…

    True, Beccy. Listen to the Mile. PAW is a fabulous tool for text adventures, and once you've had just an hours play with it, you'll curse the hours wasted with GAC :)
    Graz Graz July 2009 Development
  • GAC QuestionThere is probably a really simple way of doing this but its driving me up the wall. In GAC is there a way of ending the game ( you get killed ) if y…

    ... the other subject, 8 bit text adventures are as unplayable by today ...
    Rockersuke Moroboshi Rockersuke Moroboshi July 2009 Development
  • GAC QuestionThere is probably a really simple way of doing this but its driving me up the wall. In GAC is there a way of ending the game ( you get killed ) if y…

    ... =Rockersuke Moroboshi;369038]8 bit text adventures are as unplayable by today ... gameplay. About the only Spectrum adventures that still stand up today ...
    chev chev July 2009 Development
  • Due to rampant voting abuse for this gameI tried voting on La Abadia del Crimen for the first time in my life and got this message. The reason being its too high in the list of best games a…

    ... my blog), Wizzball and many text adventures (Gremlins, Alice in Wonderland, etc ...
    boriel boriel July 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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