[Coco] Interesting article on text adventrues.

[Jim Cox]

Rogelio:

I am actually looking forward to getting back to playing a 
lot of text based adventures.  Manny turned me on to 
Colossal Cave (aka Adventure) and now that I am really 
close to getting not only my CoCo set back up, but also my 
Atari ST, I looking forward to having some fun.

I have had a lot of false starts over the last 10 years 
and I am quite certain that some people get a chuckle when 
they read I am getting the system back up, but this time, 
it is for real.  I have turned my dinning room into Geek 
Central.  A bachelor has a right to do that you know :)

I am at that age where a lot of men end up having a 
midlife  crisis and dump their wives and/or get a 
Corvette, but for me, I want to play with old computer and 
watch 50's Sci-Fi.

Younger girlfriends and Corvettes are a lot more higher 
maintenace than a CoCo :)

Getting back to text based games, I like the fact that 
they make you use your brain, and having to think through 
and remember certain things or routes, may actually be 
good for my bubble memory :)

If you ever read User Friendly, you may remember the 
recent battle of wits between Sid and Pitr:

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070615

It lasted almost two weeks, but Sids reply was worth it :)

Cheers!

Jim

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:14:36 -0400
  "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very good article, thans for posting the link Jim!.
> 
> Won't say it brings back a lot of memories as I still 
>play many of the
> 'text' based games noted in there. I thought for a 
>moment I might see Rogue
> thrown in there but perhaps the fact that it was not 
>really interactive
> fiction prescribed it from being taken as a 'text' 
>adventure.
> 
> Just this past week I was showing a colleague at work 
>the Mocha on-line CoCo
> emulator and tried it with Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide 
>to The Galaxy. My
> friend was 'blown' away by the nature of the game, even 
>though he's an old
> timer and had a Commodore 64 once.
> 
> 
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
> 
> 
> On 7/13/07, Jim Cox <jimcox at miba51.com> wrote:
>>
>> This looks interesting.  I plan to give it a read.
>>
>> http://www.2old2play.com/News/Text_Based_Adventures__Before_the_Graphics
>>
>> Jim
> 
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