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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27@Duositex
Did somone not take their happy pills this morning? - scratched, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Zork!
- frant1c, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Quote from the actual site:
"The Atari 2600 classic lives on, in Flash, on the web!"
I guess the "In Flash" part means it's in Flash, not in Java. But, to make sure, I tried it out. And, lo and behold, it actually is in Flash! So, I've taken the liberty to name the story after this fact, but I guess I'll suffer eternal damnation for not trying out all the other games to see if they're Flash or Java. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14They didn't have it...
But this place does!
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/ - WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12>Get ye flask.
You cannot get ye flask.
?????? - JakeX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11>sit on mailbox
You can't climb onto the small mailbox
>why not? :( - Moebaca, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10hell yeah just beat adventure again
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You've been eaten by a Grue!!!
- CaptainWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8xyzzy
- idigital, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@frant1c: You titled the story "Classic text adventure games in Flash", none of the text adventure games are in flash. Eternal damnation for you.
- howski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*sigh* misquotes...
"Your sword is glowing with a faint, blue glow..."
"Your sword is glowing very brightly."
"You have moved into a dark place. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
Damn lurking grues... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'll have to call in sick and play Planetfall if they've got it!
- Heiliger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH and DENNIS.
- rosenz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The original Hitchhikers Guide text game has been online for some time. And they added images to accompany each room.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml - JJBagoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Damn those ***** Grues!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My pet peeve of text adventures!!!! Find exactly what the authors want you to type. :D
Front of House
You can enter your home to the north. A path leads around it to the northeast and northwest, and a country lane is visible to the south. All that lies between your home and the huge yellow bulldozer bearing down on it is a few yards of mud.
Mr. Prosser, from the local council, is standing on the other side of the bulldozer. He seems to be wearing a digital watch. He looks startled to see you emerge, and yells at you to get out of the way.
The bulldozer rumbles slowly toward your home.
> lay down in mud
You're not holding the ground.
> lay down
What do you want to lay down?
> lay self down
You're not holding yourself.
> lay in mud
That sentence isn't one I recognise.
> sit in mud
A totally unhelpful idea.
The bulldozer rumbles slowly toward your home.
> lay in front of bulldozer
That sentence isn't one I recognise.
> get in front of bulldozer
The bulldozer could easily maneuver around you. You're getting close, though.
The bulldozer rumbles slowly toward your home.
> lay down in front of bulldozer
You're not holding the bulldozer.
But I'm having fun! - Chickenlip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Flash OR Java: Dooesn't it just seem wrong to write TEXT games using these overkills of presentation platforms?
Seems any text adventure could be easily handled using clever CSS + DHTML ... - JJBagoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Your Sword is Glowing
- JeremiahLBurns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh man. I'm 25 and I used to play "Adventure" on my Dad's 2600. Didn't have the instructions and couldn't get past the frustration of being eaten by the "Ducks" to figure out what the hell I was supposed to do. (Hey...I was like, 4 or 5) I just beat it in 5 minutes. ~ sigh ~ gaming has come SO far. Hey! It's a sword, not an arrow! Hehehe.
- Battlecry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3'Essex' was one of my favorite text games back in my C64 days. Not on the list, but I think you can get it from the underdogs.
Great site for your old gaming needs, BTW.
http://www.the-underdogs.info/ - solemnraven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I still have dreams about that damn egg. Did anyone ever play ZOrk Nemesis the Myst/7th guest puzzler.
i miss FPP (First person puzzle) games. =( - qwertydvorak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This space intentionally left blank.
- vakh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it's JAVA games .... more adventure games at http://gamezhero.com/online-games/adventure-games.html - but on this site only modern adventure games...
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You are inside a building, a well house for a large spring.
- cocoamix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Echo...echo...echo"
That puzzle made no sense, but I felt smart getting it anyway. - jguerry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hahha Zork is awesome! http://www.clemson.edu/~jguerry/misc/zork.bmp
- idigital, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Actually I had a stupid smile on my face in anticipation after reading the digg description, which became a blank look of disappointment on visiting the site. Not much of a selection, no Hitchhiker's Guide or Leather Godesses of Phobos, wtf.
Fortunately h00paj00 linked to a site that has all the Infocom classics and the stupid smile has returned. So I'll digg this just so people might see that link in the comments, instead of burying it for the inaccurate claims of flash and old school text adventure geek joy. - Pushkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>get gown
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/zmachine/hhguide.xml failed
Booo - Caleb83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try lie down, maybe? You lie down, but if it's an object and not you, then you lay down.
- jebudas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@rosenz
You rock for posting that link. I was surprised when I didnt see the "Hitchhikers" on the digg link. When I was a child I was so proud of myself for getting that dang babel fish, but I could never get off of Zaphod's ship! Here we go again! - Heiliger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tempus Edax Rerum
- JGCollins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awesome submission, seriously. I love text games... anyone remember Federation? All that hot space cyber sex on planet xenu or what not.
- Aldrenean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@jguerry
Quick! Get Firefox! How are you on digg and still using IE? OMGWTFBBQ??! - RobKohr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you digg it:
http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Choose_your_own_adventure_wiki - e68895f, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Seems any text adventure could be easily handled using clever CSS + DHTML ..."
seems you have never done dhtml development for multiple browsers..... - bluemansteele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The game site has many flash games, the zplet pointed to is in Java.
- RobKohr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you like choose your own adventure games, there is always this one:
http://editthis.info/choose_your_own_adventure/Main_Page - jpbro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you like text adventures/interactive fiction check out these links:
http://ifarchive.org/
http://www.ifcomp.org/ - bluemansteele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you like to WRITE these text adventures... try this. http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html
- wonboodoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't believe I remember the Adventure maze after decades, didn't take a wrong turn.
This was the easiest Adventure setting (no white castle or dark mazes). Does anyone know where you can play the harder levels online (i.e. without some locally-installed ROM emulator)? - namekuseijin, on 02/24/2009, -0/+0Atari's Adventure is a simple graphical game which has nothing to do with mainframe ADVENT from 1975.
- alexthecritic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I used to play this text game called "Zooney" on my mac from the late 80s, has anyone heard of/know where to get this?
- qwertydvorak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if you are a fan of Scott Adams text adventures. here is his website (the link goes directly to the download page) you can download a package that has most of his. Things like The Count and Voodoo Castle and such.
http://www.msadams.com/downloads.htm - geminito, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Looks like someone doesn't know the difference between Flash and Java applets.
- namekuseijin, on 02/24/2009, -0/+0Keep in mind the parser is limited. Why try to go overboard when a simple "lie down" will do or even a much more rational "stop bulldozer"?
- JJBagoose, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8Why Bury Duositex?
Ther ARE Java based games. He could have said it nicer but he was right.
If you don't run Java Applets this could be of some use to a reader. - alexthecritic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I used to play this sweet text game called "Zooney" on my mac from the late 80s. Anyone know about this or where to find it?
- Ecobuckeye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Zork. Endless frustration. I didn't know what a zither was when I was 8, either.
- SellotapeGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0By Flash you mean Java?
- namekuseijin, on 02/24/2009, -0/+0How about "lie down"?
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