re: #409 Walter L. Newton

I was down with the Infocom games! I didn’t have a C64 as a kid, I had it’s competitor, the 8-bit Atari computer. I had Planetfall, Stationfall, and a whole bunch of Atari ST/Amiga era text adventures like Jinxter, The Pawn, Guild of Thieves… all of which were practically impossible because they were british and sort of relied on a certain familiarity with British culture and jokes that my 12 year old brain didn’t have. I started getting into computer games right around when the Sierra games were becoming big, so lots of Kings Quest, Space Quest, etc as well.

There;s actually an entire subculture of people who still make text adventures, they call them ‘interactive fiction” now, and there’s toolkits and parsers to make them and run them on about any machine imaginable.