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Help on a Game IDHello peeps, Might be a bit of a tricky ID this, as I think it was only released as part of a compilation. It was a space based text adventure with …
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Huge compilation - 7(ish) tapes?I'm trying to remember the name of a speccy compilation that had about 100 games and (I think) was on about 7 or 8 tapes. My mate bought it from a m…
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Computer gaming industry "heroes"From the web page ( [url]http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2011/05/poll-molyneux-miyamoto-top-world-game-development-heroes/1?…
... [/url] ) [All green and blue text is copied and pasted from ... blokes who invented the first text adventure on the mainframes in the ... -
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 …
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The Forest StopThe text adventure The Forest Stop doesn't have an Infoseek entry. It's an illustrated 128k PAW adventure by Colin Woodcock (c) 1989 Sterling Endeavo…
The text adventure The Forest Stop doesn't ... 's an illustrated 128k PAW adventure by Colin Woodcock (c) 1989 ... -
Exsdos writeHi, I'm sure I read somewhere that Exsdos can write to the CF card as if it's a tape but that it doesn't work properly and can corrupt the FAT table…
... it, for example, load a text adventure (seabase delta) from a TAP ... -
Spectrum games with best storylines?What games have you played on Spectrum that had memorable plots and characters? I've been trying to think of some Spectrum games with interesting st…
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HHGTTG the game remade by fansI don't know if this has already been posted here, but the old text adventure of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been remade into a point a…
... posted here, but the old text adventure of the Hitch-Hiker's ... BBC managed with their revamped text versions ( [url]http://www.bbc ... the atmosphere of the original text game. For a start, the ... -
The Island by Ken BondJust noticed that this text adventure appears to be missing from the database, having just come across it in an eBay auction. I imagine that it was …
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Safe as Houses wrong genreThe game "Safe as Houses" is included in a series where all of the program are catalogued as "educational", although some of them, as this one, dont …
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PokladHi, I have noticed a minor error in a game description. Please change the message language of the text adventure "Poklad" from English to Czech.
Hi, I have noticed a minor error in a game description. Please change the message language of the text adventure "Poklad" from English to Czech. -
Games Club WC 30/1/12after last weeks highly succesful albeit painfull games club. we now enter week 2. for those who missed the last one, please pick one of the games…
... of tyndal - a cheeky little text adventure from tratan software. 'sinclair user ... ' said - 'a well plotted adventure'
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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 …
SERRA PELADA is a text adventure in Portuguese originally released for ... are way too few good adventure games in Portuguese, and this ... -
Worst gaffes you've made in gamesWhat is the worst gaffe or gaffes you've made in a game? Can be a stupid own goal at football, walked straight off a cliff in some game or other, sho…
... 's Revenge (?) is a classy text adventure, swear and it kicks you ... -
Dragon World by Britannia - should it have an inlay?Pretty much as the subject says really. :) Does anyone know if this game should have an inlay? It was written using The Quill in 1984 so it's quite …
... worth playing. It's a text adventure.. here's the second location ... a lovely day for an adventure.
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Text adventure games for saleAn ebay shop is selling some of my games for me, as some are quite rare I thought the exposure in his shop would generate interest, the link is [URL=…
An ebay shop is selling some of my games for me, as some are quite rare I thought the exposure in his shop would generate interest, the link is [URL="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?rt=nc&LH_Auction=1&_ssn=microsprout0161&_trksid=p3911.c0.m301 ... -
Adventurers: Your Help NeededHi All, I'm embarking on a feat which I am going to regret. Basically I will need the help of a host of volunteers with a passion for those old cla…
... passion for those old classic text adventure games.
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PestilenceJust started work on the second of ten ideas i have on paper (Pip the Pipistrelle was the first),for this next one i am going down the text adventure…
... i am going down the text adventure route.This is what i ... capturing the atmosphere of a text adventure so i need to find ... who are familiar with these text adventure tools would be much appreciated ... -
New (TOP SECRET) Text Adventure!Yup, making a new one, so this is it's official thread. It's not going to be epic or anything, in fact it's going to be more of a joke that anything …
Yup, making a new one, so this is it's official thread. It's not going to be epic or anything, in fact it's going to be more of a joke that anything else, but there's a few things I'll be doing that I didn't encounter in the making of the Wicker Woman that ... -
Is the Text Adventure mail-order community still alive?I miss the days of Zenobi, FSF adventures, compass, all those mail order companies. And of course the general bitchiness they had against each other …
I miss the days of Zenobi, FSF adventures, compass, all those mail order companies. And of course the general bitchiness they had against each other :) (not always but....often)
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Some inlay upgrades & questions...I got a message from Juan who said the following inlays needed redoing: "- Mailstrom (the only OCEAN inlay not available at WoS!!!) - Shockway Rider…
... comic that came with the text adventure 'The Hulk'."
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Rare (I think) games listed...Have listed some of my rarer bits on eBay, as i'm needing a little extra cash for a slap up celebratory meal and p**s-up next week (my decree absolut…
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games club wc 2/7/12bit late with this one today fyi, a text adventure did come up in the search this week, but it was in spanish, so i left it out ;) some nice colorf…
bit late with this one today
fyi, a text adventure did come up in the search this week, but it was in spanish, so i left it out ;)
some nice colorfull ones for ya
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Get Lamp InterviewsJason Scott, author of the interactive fiction documentary "GET LAMP" has posted unused footage from interviews that were not published in the commer…
... the history of the UK text adventure scene from the early eighties ... -bit computers, the birth of text adventures in the UK, Magnetic ... -
64x48 full colour graphicsHow feasible is this? Could an interrupt-driven routine be used to, for example, fill the top two thirds with a 64x32 blocky picture and leave the bo…
... bottom third for text and write a nice text adventure?
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Pirate SoftwareChecking its games, this company looks a bit messed up maybe? One game, a text adventure, from 1984: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid…
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One game, a text adventure, from 1984:
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ESP Software, same company?Checking the releases from this company, they have games in the early and mid 80s, and suddenly there is a jump until 1990 when "Pro Tennis Tour" app…
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The Hideous authorsIn this spanish text adventure, as per the initial screen: Program: Kenny Murdocj Texts: Fran Morell Arts: Xerome It also says: Copyright 1991@ Yea…
In this spanish text adventure, as per the initial screen:
Program: Kenny Murdocj
Texts: Fran Morell
Arts: Xerome
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Interrogacion tool of creation (spanish text adventure)As per the initial screen, was created using PAW.
As per the initial screen, was created using PAW. -
Your favourite Spectrum [whatever] beginning with a numberI thought I'd resurrect the fairly popular 'Best Spectrum game beginning with [whatever letter], so here goes. You know the drill, each of your answe…
... /textadv/1.html[/url] (Spectrum adventure games)
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Best text adventure: No idea (text adventures aren't my ...
