When I was growing up we had a BBC Micro and the sine qua non of text based adventure games were those made by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_9_Computing
Good luck finding an emulator though.
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#132telnet 6000 4dimensions.org
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#133I help run the Interactive Fiction Database. https://ifdb.org/ I think that our list of games ranked by review scores is certainly the finest repository of extraordinary text-based games in the world. https://ifdb.org/search?browse Every game on that list is fantastic. For your reading convenience, the top ten are: Counterfeit Monkey , Anchorhead , Superluminal Vagrant Twin , 80 Days , Hadean Lands , Lost Pig , The W…
Counterfeit Monkey is great writing: To review, we're Alexandra now. I was Alex, before the synthesis. You were... >I don't know ...oh boy. Okay. Okay. I need you on form here. This is going to be hard if you don't remember being Andra. Not panicking. As far as I can tell, the operation was a success. We're meant to be one person now, unrecognizable to anyone who knew us before. hehe
Counterfeit Monkey is my all-time favorite. I like it so much, I made a mobile-friendly demo:
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#134This one is short, fun and illustrated with emojis. https://memalign.github.io/p/dungeon-memalign.html
Thanks for playing and sharing it!
Direct link to the game:
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#135Infocom adventure games are some of the grand-daddy's of text adventures. Zork is by far the most well known, but also pretty infamous are Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Leather Godesses' of Phobos and A Mind Forever Voyaging. As a warm-up, I'd recommend Moonmist. It's a mystery game listed as a "Beginner" game, and is great for introducing elements of the Infocom system. The feelies are available to view here: ht…
> feelies This is a term we're going to have to explain to the younger generation: when games were shipped in boxes, those contained at minimum a disc and a printed manual, but some companies came up with gimmick items you could put in the box and "feel", to enhance your immersion in the game. I still have my Ultima 6 "moonstone" and cloth map somewhere.
I recall this being a term in paper-age SF, a fututristic trope of what mass entertainment might become. A “feely” was a sort of movie that involved touch. It was almost always described somewhat disapprovingly, as a sign of future decadence.
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#136Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/interactivefiction/ . It's surprisingly lively and they have lots of recommendations for beginners.
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#138You should look into /r/mud games.
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#139Apart from IF, I still sorely miss playing MUDs from when I was younger. Some of the worlds created by amateur writers were truly magical. Something I haven't ever quite got the same feeling from any graphical MMO.
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#140I loved these games far more than reasonable when I was young.
However for me, the appeal has passed.