[Coco] Anyone still play text adventure games?

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 08:08:18AM +1000, Nick Marentes wrote:
> > As someone that wrote the first Animated Graphics Adventure, ...
> > (Steve Bjork)
> 
> Let's not forget to mention James Garon and Ralph Burris who also
> are credited for this game in 1982.
> 
> Also, Frank Cohen has been credited for this game. Don't know the
> story here. Maybe he did the original design? On the Apple or Atari?
> 
> I don't know if it was the first "animated graphic adventure". The
> game doesn't appear to be well  known to the "outside world". I know
> Sierra's Mystery Fun House was released in 1980. I don't know if it
> was animated. I remember the excellent Mark Data series of animated
> graphic adventures but I think they came after Sands of Egypt?

"I think I went once to some sands that were Egyptian"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

:-)

> It would be interesting to get the history of this. Can you shed any
> light here Steve?

Hear, hear!

> > Now Dr. Sheldon Cooper (see The Big bang Theory) has a different opinion
> > about textual based Adventure games of the 1980's...
> >
> > "It runs on the world's more power graphics chip, imagination" (as Dr.
> > Sheldon Cooper points to his own head.)
> 
> I agree 101% with this.   :)

+1

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