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To show off my truly dorky side, wondering if anyone else out there was a player of old Infocom games?

A few years ago, I picked up copies of all of the old games via the Masterpieces of Infocom.

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Text-Adve ... 929&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I truly paid $15 for it from the company - round about 12 years ago.

The games brought me right back to the 1980's when my friends and I would live through all of them - Cutthroats, Bureaucracy, Hitchhiker's Guide, Zork, and Trinity to name a few.

I persuaded my wife to play Nord and Bert after we picked it up, too. Pretty fun.

I also bought Twisty Passages, the guide to old IF, and I'm starting a read. Any others?
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Nerdork.

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xodacia81 wrote:Nerdork.

Quite proudly.

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made being a nerd, "cool"

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:thumb:
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kevinbastos wrote:
xodacia81 wrote:Nerdork.

Quite proudly.

I tell my students that I'm such a dork - it's actually a little bit cool.
I think the vast majority of those on this site qualify as such. Hell, when money is good, I collect comics, coins and books. I watch everything from silent films to experimental documentaries. My interests are rather eclectic. It's all good.

As for your text game...

My Red Dwarf, Max, raises his Silver Hammer and strikes your Elf two times.

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Sorry. Lost in a maze of twisty little passages... All alike. :thumb:
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superman-prime wrote:Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made being a nerd, "cool"
Sweet Jesus in heaven... you are using grammar and punctuation.

:o :o :o

THANK YOU !!!

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Knightt wrote:
superman-prime wrote:Bill Gates and Steve Jobs made being a nerd, "cool"
Sweet Jesus in heaven... you are using grammar and punctuation.

:o :o :o

THANK YOU !!!
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I tried some of these on a website a bit ago, I had forgotten all about them! :thumb:

I have a question, does anybody remember the games that were almost exactly like this, but they provided graphics for each area? I don't mean like Space Quest or King's Quest where you could move around, but just little images to go with the story.

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Sure, sure. I always managed to come around to Infocom, though. Ah, the eighties...
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kevinbastos wrote:Sure, sure. I always managed to come around to Infocom, though. Ah, the eighties...
They had the BEST cartoons...and, uh...other stuff...

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The new Back to the Future game is pretty much interactive fiction.
Right?

Wait. What were we talking about here? Nevermind.

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Nah thats a point and click adventure. Thin line that
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Point and click. Bleah.

Check out an online Infocom play. Zork I, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are both available, but so should many others, too.

I guess I just always saw a connection - especially with Infocom - to Valiant since the stories were so rich.

Keep in mind - these were late seventies/early eighties high tech.

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Yes, a completely DEAD forum, but I found out when I tried to re-install my Mac and Windows 95 version of the software that

1. Windows 8 does not like EARLY software versions.
2. Windows 8 really does not like to run emulators.

AND most importantly,

The iTunes Store is now selling a version that includes 25 of the games for $10, or Zork for free. If you are a child of the Eighties, they are wonderful hikes into the past.
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kevinbastos wrote:To show off my truly dorky side, wondering if anyone else out there was a player of old Infocom games?

A few years ago, I picked up copies of all of the old games via the Masterpieces of Infocom.

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Text-Adve ... 929&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I truly paid $15 for it from the company - round about 12 years ago.

The games brought me right back to the 1980's when my friends and I would live through all of them - Cutthroats, Bureaucracy, Hitchhiker's Guide, Zork, and Trinity to name a few.

I persuaded my wife to play Nord and Bert after we picked it up, too. Pretty fun.

I also bought Twisty Passages, the guide to old IF, and I'm starting a read. Any others?
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DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:To show off my truly dorky side, wondering if anyone else out there was a player of old Infocom games?

A few years ago, I picked up copies of all of the old games via the Masterpieces of Infocom.

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Text-Adve ... 929&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I truly paid $15 for it from the company - round about 12 years ago.

The games brought me right back to the 1980's when my friends and I would live through all of them - Cutthroats, Bureaucracy, Hitchhiker's Guide, Zork, and Trinity to name a few.

I persuaded my wife to play Nord and Bert after we picked it up, too. Pretty fun.

I also bought Twisty Passages, the guide to old IF, and I'm starting a read. Any others?
Got the exact same thing. The giant collection. Play 'em quite often. They're really fun.
Won any yet?
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kevinbastos wrote:
DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:To show off my truly dorky side, wondering if anyone else out there was a player of old Infocom games?

A few years ago, I picked up copies of all of the old games via the Masterpieces of Infocom.

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Text-Adve ... 929&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I truly paid $15 for it from the company - round about 12 years ago.

The games brought me right back to the 1980's when my friends and I would live through all of them - Cutthroats, Bureaucracy, Hitchhiker's Guide, Zork, and Trinity to name a few.

I persuaded my wife to play Nord and Bert after we picked it up, too. Pretty fun.

I also bought Twisty Passages, the guide to old IF, and I'm starting a read. Any others?
Got the exact same thing. The giant collection. Play 'em quite often. They're really fun.
Won any yet?
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DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:
DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:To show off my truly dorky side, wondering if anyone else out there was a player of old Infocom games?

A few years ago, I picked up copies of all of the old games via the Masterpieces of Infocom.

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Text-Adve ... 929&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I truly paid $15 for it from the company - round about 12 years ago.

The games brought me right back to the 1980's when my friends and I would live through all of them - Cutthroats, Bureaucracy, Hitchhiker's Guide, Zork, and Trinity to name a few.

I persuaded my wife to play Nord and Bert after we picked it up, too. Pretty fun.

I also bought Twisty Passages, the guide to old IF, and I'm starting a read. Any others?
Got the exact same thing. The giant collection. Play 'em quite often. They're really fun.
Won any yet?
I won Zork I and II and died just before finishing Infidel.
If you liked Infidel, try Cutthroats. Time is a factor, but it's much easier. I played that on my ol' Commodore 64! I wanna get back and push through a few of the ones not on the new release. But I LOVE the feelies contained on the app. It's a seriously hard look back in the past. Planetfall was my second fave - after Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - unfortunately not on the list - but playable online a few places, if I remember correctly.
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kevinbastos wrote:
DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:
DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:To show off my truly dorky side, wondering if anyone else out there was a player of old Infocom games?

A few years ago, I picked up copies of all of the old games via the Masterpieces of Infocom.

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Text-Adve ... 929&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I truly paid $15 for it from the company - round about 12 years ago.

The games brought me right back to the 1980's when my friends and I would live through all of them - Cutthroats, Bureaucracy, Hitchhiker's Guide, Zork, and Trinity to name a few.

I persuaded my wife to play Nord and Bert after we picked it up, too. Pretty fun.

I also bought Twisty Passages, the guide to old IF, and I'm starting a read. Any others?
Got the exact same thing. The giant collection. Play 'em quite often. They're really fun.
Won any yet?
I won Zork I and II and died just before finishing Infidel.
If you liked Infidel, try Cutthroats. Time is a factor, but it's much easier. I played that on my ol' Commodore 64! I wanna get back and push through a few of the ones not on the new release. But I LOVE the feelies contained on the app. It's a seriously hard look back in the past. Planetfall was my second fave - after Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - unfortunately not on the list - but playable online a few places, if I remember correctly.
I tried Hitchhiker's multiple times and gotten know where. I've done Planetfall. Didn't finish. But I was planning on doing Cutthroats before I got out of it. Guess I will have to get back into it. :)
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Hitchhikers had maybe the toughest puzzle in Infocom to get the babel fish.

Cutthroats seemed very logical throughout. A few red herrings, but very straightforward. Planetfall is tough, and you can end the game without knowing it, but it is very rewarding. Keep MULTIPLE save spaces. Station fall is terrible.
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DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:
DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:
DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:To show off my truly dorky side, wondering if anyone else out there was a player of old Infocom games?

A few years ago, I picked up copies of all of the old games via the Masterpieces of Infocom.

http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Text-Adve ... 929&sr=8-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I truly paid $15 for it from the company - round about 12 years ago.

The games brought me right back to the 1980's when my friends and I would live through all of them - Cutthroats, Bureaucracy, Hitchhiker's Guide, Zork, and Trinity to name a few.

I persuaded my wife to play Nord and Bert after we picked it up, too. Pretty fun.

I also bought Twisty Passages, the guide to old IF, and I'm starting a read. Any others?
Got the exact same thing. The giant collection. Play 'em quite often. They're really fun.
Won any yet?
I won Zork I and II and died just before finishing Infidel.
If you liked Infidel, try Cutthroats. Time is a factor, but it's much easier. I played that on my ol' Commodore 64! I wanna get back and push through a few of the ones not on the new release. But I LOVE the feelies contained on the app. It's a seriously hard look back in the past. Planetfall was my second fave - after Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - unfortunately not on the list - but playable online a few places, if I remember correctly.
I tried Hitchhiker's multiple times and gotten know where. I've done Planetfall. Didn't finish. But I was planning on doing Cutthroats before I got out of it. Guess I will have to get back into it. :)
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lorddunlow wrote:
DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:
DrSoup007 wrote:
kevinbastos wrote:
DrSoup007 wrote: Got the exact same thing. The giant collection. Play 'em quite often. They're really fun.
Won any yet?
I won Zork I and II and died just before finishing Infidel.
If you liked Infidel, try Cutthroats. Time is a factor, but it's much easier. I played that on my ol' Commodore 64! I wanna get back and push through a few of the ones not on the new release. But I LOVE the feelies contained on the app. It's a seriously hard look back in the past. Planetfall was my second fave - after Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - unfortunately not on the list - but playable online a few places, if I remember correctly.
I tried Hitchhiker's multiple times and gotten know where. I've done Planetfall. Didn't finish. But I was planning on doing Cutthroats before I got out of it. Guess I will have to get back into it. :)
H2G2 is super difficult. My first playthrough, it took about 30 minutes just to get out of bed and another hour to get outside to the bulldozer. It wasn't frustrating at all though, because every wrong move rewards you with an hilarious joke.
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