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  • Graphics that impressed youDan Dare 3 Extreme Driller (before I started playing it) Mercenary R-Type

    ... />
    And of course, some text adventures, like Gremlins, Hulk, Carvalho etc
    JuanF. Ramirez JuanF. Ramirez November 2011 Games
  • Worst graphics ever?There's (yet another) thread about the best Spectrum graphics, so here's one about the worst. Of course, if you want to be fair then a "worst" graphi…

    ... stored as vectorial, as in text adventures, but there is little detail ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix December 2011 Games
  • The Adv. Game I'm Ridiculously Trying To Play Part 1Ok, from now on from time to time I will start playing some adventure games and I will keep a "journal" in the forum about my progression, or, more p…

    ... ? does anyone watch videos of text adventures ? Perhaps a good way to ...
    Mevweb Mevweb December 2011 Games
  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... any particular genre (apart from text adventures!)
    weesam weesam December 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • You have one hour...You have one hour in which to convince a modern teenager that spending some time with a Spectrum rather than their XBox 360/PS3 might just be worth w…

    ... he did like a few text-adventures (e.g. Robin the Sherlock ...
    NRA NRA December 2011 Games
  • You have one hour...You have one hour in which to convince a modern teenager that spending some time with a Spectrum rather than their XBox 360/PS3 might just be worth w…

    ... />
    I can see that text adventures would work. NOT really anything ...
    Captain Offensive Captain Offensive December 2011 Games
  • Excalibur by Jose Damian de la FlorAcording to the first screen, this game was written in 1990.

    Thanks!

    And this is a reminder that I have to check all the text adventures from the MH contest, because I think there are more cases like this!
    Ivanzx Ivanzx December 2011 Infoseek database
  • Games with Plus3/Disk enhancementsFor about 95% of games of +3 disk, it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being reduced loading times. However, there were a few excep…

    [QUOTE=^m00h^;518784]5 text adventures by Magnetic Scrolls ltd:
    < ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx December 2011 Games
  • Tricked into buying/playing a game!Have you ever been 'tricked' into purchasing a game by the advert (looking completely different to how the game played out) or a review or an inlay c…

    ... as much fun as other text adventures. Plus it cost a quid ...
    absinthe_boy absinthe_boy December 2011 Games
  • New Game: Broken FriendHi all, Here is a bit of a departure for me game wise, but taking me back to the 80's where I wrote loads of text adventures. Now with the help of B…

    Cool game! I usualy do not play text adventures, but this is a exception.
    LCD LCD January 2012 Brand new software
  • New Game: Broken FriendHi all, Here is a bit of a departure for me game wise, but taking me back to the 80's where I wrote loads of text adventures. Now with the help of B…

    I'm absolutely shocking at text adventures. If I wanted to pick something up from the floor what command should I use? [I]take, collect [I]and[/I] pick up [/I]don't work :-(
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2012 Brand new software
  • New Game: Broken FriendHi all, Here is a bit of a departure for me game wise, but taking me back to the 80's where I wrote loads of text adventures. Now with the help of B…

    You should use [I]get.[/I] It's the A-B-C of text adventures, I find it hard to believe you don't even know this :D

    Had a quick go at the adventure itself, not bad really and good for a change from your usual albeit nice platformers.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu January 2012 Brand new software
  • New Game: Broken FriendHi all, Here is a bit of a departure for me game wise, but taking me back to the 80's where I wrote loads of text adventures. Now with the help of B…

    ... the A-B-C of text adventures, I find it hard to ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2012 Brand new software
  • 2011 Best Spectrum gameOk, here we go now...all the games (I hope so) covered in the poll, maximum (or recommended) 3 votes for each person (I am sorry!, do not complain la…

    ... ) , the or any of the text adventures, half of which were non ...
    def chris def chris January 2012 Games
  • Noob needs helpSorry gents but decided to have a play with basic...see if I could knock up a shonky as hell space invader type game I seem to have gotten myself co…

    ... a nipper was like shonky text adventures and cos I was lame ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Games club 2012?Just stumbled on a load of these old threads, like [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=16162"]this one[/URL]. Ages ago I wa…

    [QUOTE=ZnorXman;596179] Usually it's best that the games are similar, i.e. "[I]let's try out these text adventure games that all feature a carrot as the main character[/I]" [/QUOTE]

    i want to play the carrot's text adventures too, i'm in.
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel January 2012 Games
  • space optimisation algorithm neededScenario: * An adventure game consists of a series of locations, each of which may or may not have some text and/or graphics associated with it. * A…

    ... ], [I]Zelda[/I]) rather than text adventures. They're also a lot ...
    joefish joefish January 2012 Development
  • space optimisation algorithm neededScenario: * An adventure game consists of a series of locations, each of which may or may not have some text and/or graphics associated with it. * A…

    ... ], [I]Zelda[/I]) rather than text adventures. They're also a lot ... that you can separate description (text+gfx) of location and its ...
    Fikee Fikee January 2012 Development
  • space optimisation algorithm neededScenario: * An adventure game consists of a series of locations, each of which may or may not have some text and/or graphics associated with it. * A…

    ... don't know of many text adventures that do what the later ... extend it.

    Typically text adventures have worked by providing the ...
    joefish joefish January 2012 Development
  • It's almost lifelike!!!We were easily impressed back in the Speccy days. And I'm sure we will look back on modern games today wondering why we thought it was "almost" real…

    ... because I couldn't find text adventure games in the local ... make my own "commercial quality" text adventures (I didn't, but I ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2012 Games
  • It's almost lifelike!!!We were easily impressed back in the Speccy days. And I'm sure we will look back on modern games today wondering why we thought it was "almost" real…

    ... because I couldn't find text adventure games in the local ... make my own "commercial quality" text adventures (I didn't, but I ...
    zx1 zx1 February 2012 Games
  • Another request/idea for infoseekHello Martijn, I was thinking that some of the games which are considered as "commercial", were indeed commercial, but not in the strict sense, I mea…

    ... , as most of them are text adventures :)
    Ivanzx Ivanzx February 2012 Infoseek database
  • Soon: SERRA PELADA!SERRA PELADA is a text adventure in Portuguese originally released for the TRS-80 and MSX in 1987. It was developed using an improved version of the …

    ... . I'm afraid translating a text adventure is way too much ... /> Also there are plenty of adventures in English already and almost ... /"]CASA[/URL] list over 1500 text adventures in English and only 5 ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas February 2012 Announcements
  • Two fingered gamesNifty Lifty, Crimebusters, Bug Eyes. I love games with simple two keyed controls like these*, can anyone name any other good ones worth investigating…

    Most text adventures allow the use of fingers 1-8, plus two thumbs if required.
    Graz Graz February 2012 Games
  • What's your favourite game of 1982?I know we've probably done this before before someone posts a link.... [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekadv.cgi?what=1&regexp=&yrorder=1…

    ... ? Really? Unbelievable. A milestone in text adventures - not surpassed technically 'til LOTR ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley March 2012 Games
  • What's your favourite game of 1982?I know we've probably done this before before someone posts a link.... [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekadv.cgi?what=1&regexp=&yrorder=1…

    ... ? Really? Unbelievable. A milestone in text adventures - not surpassed technically 'til LOTR ... and away the most advanced adventures for the Spectrum are the ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2012 Games
  • Writing your own text adventuresIts something ive always wanted to do, i dont want to write them with TADS i want to write them with "The Quill" or something similar, is it possible…

    I had the Quill and i wrote around 5 text adventures but they're sadly lost now.
    zx1 zx1 April 2012 Games
  • ZX Spectrum Gamer issue 2 is out[url=http://www.pcengine.co.uk/gamer/][img]http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/910/zxspectrumgamerforumima.png[/img][/url] It may be about 6 months l…

    ... - it's a first class text adventure and its presentation in ... my inherent failure to like text adventures rather than the game itself ... its type. I wish more adventures shared its quality visuals.
    sunteam sunteam April 2012 Announcements
  • Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…

    I think text adventures is the best way for Monkey Island..
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 April 2012 New game ideas
  • Selling my collection !!Hi there, Just wanted to let everyone know.. I'm selling all my spectrum games (would like them to go to a good home! ) Have a look on ebay ...700+ s…

    ... . Dupes..bad.
    Lack of text adventures...bad :)
    Trouble with joblots ...
    Vaxalon Vaxalon April 2012 Sales
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