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  • Is anyone else really bad at games?Or is it just me? I do wonder sometimes. A new game comes up and people ooh and aah, and say it took them an hour to complete, and it's a bit short.…

    ... never could finish a single text adventure whatsoever.

    I could ... Magick when I got the map in a Speccy mag.
    pkersey pkersey April 2013 Games
  • Type In Adventure....With a "sage"?I remember as a kid getting a book from the library. One of those type in adventure book thingys... I vaguely remember an adventure with a sage in a…

    That map looks quite big. :-o

    Is it actually possible to have a type-in text adventure without revealing a few spoilers?
    Morkin Morkin December 2013 Games
  • THE HOBBIT loading screenHello again, thought I'd have a go at an alternative loading screen for The Hobbit. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/THE%20HOBBIT%…

    ... a good idea for a text adventure) :)

    I'm interested ... ] text adventure and I still have my own complete hand-drawn game map ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2014 Games
  • 1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.

    ... /> This is a sloppy text adventure literally littered with bugs, and ... so. So, a sloppy adventure can be fun. A ... sloppy adventure can be good. Sloppily ... to emerge. And the map is not so absolutely meager ... . It's a bad adventure for bad adventurers: it ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel April 2014 Games
  • New bicolour game: El Stompo.Phew! Finally finished my first game using Einar's fantastic Nirvana engine. [B]El Stompo.[/B] [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/davey…

    ... other parts of the game map. None of these problems apply ... is the equivalent of those adventure game puzzles where there's ... Hobbit[/URL] is my favorite text adventure. I mentioned it quite a ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas April 2014 Brand new software
  • Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…

    ... create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure.

    I ... to the tutorial adventure.
    - For your first adventure, start small ... and two objects. Map out the adventure first on paper, ... could merge it into my text adventure...)

    [/QUOTE]
    ...
    GReW GReW December 2014 Development
  • 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…

    ... larger than 128k, so a text adventure is possible, but with graphics ... you access the island travel map.
    Personally I like Zak ...
    slenkar slenkar December 2014 New game ideas
  • Some Spectrum Adventure ReviewsHi, HeeHee... Today I found some old short reviews I did of some Spectrum Adventures for contributions to "SynTax" disk adventure magazine in the 19…

    "LABOUR PAINS"
    Zenobi Software Text Adventure
    Authors: J. Scott ... make a small
    map at this stage as ... /> -----------------------
    Another space adventure set in the far future ... games understand the standard adventure commands as well as ...
    catventure catventure March 2015 Games
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... [/color]
    A sci fi text adventure in which you are an ... pretty good, I managed to map all the three levels of ... , it seems a nice a text adventure.

    [b]3,5 ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel November 2015 Games
  • Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…

    The Long Way Home text adventure series - playing plippy-ploppy sounds ... bad, but looking at the map was painful... :((
    Morkin Morkin January 2016 Games
  • Jet-Set Willy: The Text Adventure!!! :DSo, having been playing quite a bit of Zork, and Colossal Cave Adventure of late, I thought to myself, why not mix it up with another childhood class…

    ... basing it on the original map, so directions are always ... knows the layout of the map, and so play on ... quite a bit of the map to be accessed from ... just make for a silly adventure. Replace all of that ... of lives (novel for a text adventure) then it could be quite ...
    joefish joefish July 2016 New game ideas
  • Retro Game Comparison Blog.So, here's a shameless plug for my blog, which should interest some of you. Then again, it's not biased towards any particular system, so it might no…

    ... the only commercially released Finnish text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. In ... , and a badly hidden incomplete map that I've drawn myself ... said about other old Finnish text adventures, if anyone's interested ...
    Skaepoy Skaepoy January 2017 Announcements
  • Gilsoft Quill/PAWHi, I'm not sure if this info has already been posted or not but for adventure fans there is an interesting site about these creators with some re…

    ... a character/map/sprite editor to design graphics for a text adventure which ... ://www.wizwords.net/memories-of-adventure-game-writing/

    Later ...
    catventure catventure July 2017 Games
  • Does anyone play text adventures?I wrote a text adventure using The Quill waaaaay back when I was 16. It was released commercially by Kerian software and was available on here. It wa…

    ... the game, the GIF map and text instructions, after brekkers I'll ... and play of a good text adventure so I can use it ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch August 2017 Games
  • Does anyone play text adventures?I wrote a text adventure using The Quill waaaaay back when I was 16. It was released commercially by Kerian software and was available on here. It wa…

    ... the game, the GIF map and text instructions, after brekkers I'll ... and play of a good text adventure so I can use it ...
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause August 2017 Games
  • Were the SciFi Fighting Fantasy books so bad?I stopped reading FF books after about Armies Of Death, #36. But they started printing only fantasy based ones after #33 Sky Lord. They ran all the w…

    ... ported the text to computer to make a multi choice adventure. It ... . I've still got the map in my head, the orc ... maps the game into a text adventure. The aim was to make ...
    Luny Luny July 2019 Chit chat
  • Were the SciFi Fighting Fantasy books so bad?I stopped reading FF books after about Armies Of Death, #36. But they started printing only fantasy based ones after #33 Sky Lord. They ran all the w…

    ... ported the text to computer to make a multi choice adventure. It ... . I've still got the map in my head, the orc ... maps the game into a text adventure. The aim was to make ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2019 Chit chat
  • Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...

    Going to pick another adventure game, actually two (sorry ... .org/archive/software/text-adventures/invincible-island- ... if "slow to respond") text adventure.

    I ... it will be an 'adventure' for me too. ... br /> There's a map on Tipshop for the former ...
    spider spider August 2020 Games
  • Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…

    ... so that's useful for text adventure style games.

    [url ... on code from here http://map.grauw.nl/sources/external/z80bits ... on code from here http://map.grauw.nl/sources/external/z80bits ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Development
  • I`m Looking For A Game....Can anybody help me I`m looking of a game.... I think it was a text-adventure based on a film with Medusa in it That`s All I Can Remember....... Ple…

    Can anybody help me I`m looking of a game....

    I think it was a text-adventure based on a film with Medusa in it
    That`s All I Can Remember.......
    Please......
    Anonymous Anonymous September 2001 Games
  • Name this game please !Hi guys, I know you lot know your games so i'm really hoping you can help me out. The game i'm after was kind of like a text adventure but featured a…

    ... was kind of like a text adventure but featured a comic strip ...
    Anonymous Anonymous August 2001 Games
  • Jason & The FleeceDoes anyone have any more info about... Full title Jason and the Golden Fleece Year of release unknown Publisher Pocket Money Software Machine…

    ...
    Joysticks None
    Type Text Adventure
    Message language English
    Adrian Seymour Adrian Seymour October 2001 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Wanted: TZX for Dr Jeckly and Mr HydeHi Folks, Does anyone have or can provide a TZX for Dr Jeckly and Mr Hyde by Essential Myth. I believe there are 3 parts for this Gothic Text Adven…

    ... 3 parts for this Gothic Text Adventure.
    I think I only ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2001 MIA/STP/SDP
  • WonderwormJust a quick note to let you know of a game not mentioned in the 'missing in action section'. The game is a text adventure caslled WONDERWORM and wa…

    Just a quick note to let you know of a game not mentioned in the 'missing in action section'. The game is a text adventure caslled WONDERWORM and was reviewed in the May 1984 issue of Big K magazine.

    I'd love a copy!

    Richard
    Richard Richard April 2001 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Zenobi Software?I know WOS are busy sorting through all the software companies, but these people whoever they are, created a game I have been after for many years. …

    ... years. The game is a text adventure called 'Behind Closed Doors'. It ...
    Scurvy Scurvy June 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help! The Castle by Chris Cannonis a text adventure. How do you get over/across the chasm with the buzzards flying overhead??? They keep pulling my head off!!! Would be most gratefu…

    is a text adventure. How do you get over/across the chasm with the buzzards flying overhead??? They keep pulling my head off!!! Would be most grateful for any help/tips. Thanks.
    romeo7 romeo7 April 2002 Games
  • Quiz IV (Oh God not another one!!!)Yup, another chance to prove your knowledge of Speccy games. Some questions are cryptic, some aren't! One point per corecct answer. Post your answ…

    ... had to type in the text adventure 'The Eye of Bain' (you ...
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2002 Games
  • C'mon Arjun make a quiz!!!!!! Arjun you've joined in all the quizes (is that how u quiz in plural?) I wanna have a go at yours! I know there'll be a few text adventure ones in t…

    Arjun you've joined in all the quizes (is that how u quiz in plural?) I wanna have a go at yours!

    I know there'll be a few text adventure ones in there if u do!!
    Vampyre Vampyre June 2002 Games
  • Games that benefit from a change in speed.Has anybody tried playing games on an emulator at different speeds? I've found that certain games are more playable with a slight speed tweak. Obvio…

    ... programs written in basic and text adventure games are going to benefit ...
    Martyh! Martyh! June 2002 Games
  • Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…

    ... .

    18. In this text adventure you actually had to solve ... game.

    19. Another text adventure, but this time you had ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2002 Games
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