Text-only Games Section

[TheVoid]

Welcome to the Text-Only Games Division of Abandonia!!!!

Kosta said this section will be reality when we have at least 5 games complete (archive+review+Screenshots). Since now I'm going to upload:


Rogue

Zork 1
wendymaree

Zork 2
Ioncannon

Zork 3
Ioncannon

Adventure
TheVoid

Rockstar
TheVoid

A Mind Forever Voyaging
TheVoid

Castle Adventure
TheVoid

The Hobbit

LOTR: Crack of Doom

LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring

Hitchicker's Guide To Galaxy
TheVoid

And other fellows are going to upload:



Zyll upload by Guybrush?
Guybrush??

The Kobayashi Alternative upload by Guybrush
Guybrush

Final Contact upload by Guybrush
Guybrush

Softporn Adventure upload by The_EgAt


WORK FINISHED: 20%

The Prometean Prophecy uploaded by Guybrush
Guybrush


I'm reviewing Rockstar and Adventure.....if someone of good will offers to review the other, or propose other deserving text games, please let me know....

Any help is well accepted!!! :ok:

[Shifter]

Wow, nice =D

I just wish I had enough patience for text games.

I used to play MUDS back in the BBS days but now I have gotten old and lazy.

In fact I have hardly ever even read any books fully. I think The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings may be the only books I read fully and enjoyed (and wasnt forced to by school)

[TheVoid]

Really? Actually there are LOTS of text games based on LotR books......I'll add some to the list, and if you want to collaborate....just call for them.

[Guybrush]

I will start working on reviews for The Kobayashi Alternative and Final Contact. May as well get the whole trilogy up. :)

I may try to do Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy later on unless someone else wants to tackle it.

[Durak]

Guybrush? What kind of name is that? Heh, funny pirates.

Anyway, I would do a review for these but I am VERY busy so I'll just support you for now. :ok:

[The_EgAt]

I can upload Softporn, but I can't write a review since I haven't played it and don't plan to.

[The Niles]

Originally posted by The_EgAt@Sep 9 2004, 12:54 PM
I can upload Softporn.
May I be the first to say :blink: .

[Tom Henrik]

Originally posted by The Picard+Sep 9 2004, 01:24 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (The Picard @ Sep 9 2004, 01:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-The_EgAt@Sep 9 2004, 12:54 PM
I can upload Softporn.
May I be the first to say :blink: . [/b][/quote]
Then I'm gonna be the second :blink:

[Tom Henrik]

And then let me say.....

Are you talking about the predeccor for Leisure Suit Larry? Softporn Adventure? Which is a textbased adventure.... or are you talking about Hentai games, and Stip-poker?

http://mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,9303/ <-- Softporn Adventure

[Guybrush]

Text adventures are nice, but how about a text RPG? I have an old game called Zyll dated 1984, released by IBM for the original PC. I had no way of even running it until recently because it's on a 5.25" 360K floppy disk, but I've got a drive now. It plays a neat little tune through the PC speaker when you start it (though it doesn't seem to play properly in XP), and then asks which type of game you want to play. This is as far as I can get as I can't seem to get it to accept any input. I may try it out in DOSbox later. :)

[The_EgAt]

Originally posted by Tom Henrik@Sep 9 2004, 02:08 PM
Are you talking about the predeccor for Leisure Suit Larry? Softporn Adventure?
That would be correct.

[TheVoid]

Originally posted by Guybrush@Sep 9 2004, 11:04 PM
Text adventures are nice, but how about a text RPG? I have an old game called Zyll dated 1984, released by IBM for the original PC. I had no way of even running it until recently because it's on a 5.25" 360K floppy disk, but I've got a drive now. It plays a neat little tune through the PC speaker when you start it (though it doesn't seem to play properly in XP), and then asks which type of game you want to play. This is as far as I can get as I can't seem to get it to accept any input. I may try it out in DOSbox later. :)
I've heard of it.....if you want make a review of Zyll, I'll sign your name in the list.


And about Softporn adventure.....if the contents don't offend anyone, I'll put it in the list.

[The_EgAt]

Originally posted by TheVoid@Sep 8 2004, 04:42 PM
Softporn Adventure
The_EgAt???
I can only upload... so someone else has to review

[wendymaree]

Void, I've got Zork I installed and have started playing it, so I can do a review, etc, for that one. :)

[Guybrush]

I was looking around today and came across a program called WinFrotz which allows you to run Infocom text adventures natively in Windows. You can find it here: http://www.cris.com/%7ETwist/WinFrotz/ :)

[Iron_Scarecrow]

I have a game called "Arthur the Quest for Excalibur". It's a decent game not too bad, you can even look up hints through a crystal as you play. :D
But it comes with some graphics, so if you're looking for text based games without graphics then I don't know why I bothered mentioning this.

I also have another game called "Gnome Ranger". But I didn't like that game one bit. Everytime a word starting with n comes up, like north, it would spell it with a g in the front, such as gnorth, this got very very annoying after a while so I stopped playing it. It also comes with some graphics.

[TheVoid]

I'm sorry about long absence, due mainly to my provider that is really making me mad.....

@Guybrush: I've also heard of that program, and make sure it'll be available when the text section comes.

@Wendy: A review from such an expert would be gratefully appreciated!

@Iron Scarecrow: As said here:
I'll consider in this section games that require entire control from keyboard through typing, and NO graphics except some border-line games like the ones made by Magnetic Scrolls which features only seldom pictures representing some places-without interacting with them.

Text Games can feature graphics, until you can't interact with them - in case you can, games slide in the Graphic Adventure genre.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Well after going back and playing the games again I'm pretty sure they fall into this category. You do everything by typing and a basic picture comes up of where you are. You can't do anything with the pictures they're just there for show.

[TheVoid]

So....will you send me, review and take some screenshots of the games? At least the first, seeing you don't really like the second....and we want games people will enjoy playing, don't we? :sneaky:

[TheVoid]

Ok, I put this as a challenge. I believe it possible to make the Text section enter in Abandonia's ranks by the autumnal equinox, 23 September. Of course it'll be punctually updated, but I think of good omen to make it rise under the goodwill of the stars. :P

I'm expecting your works! :)

[Ababo]

I have a nice little package called the "Infocom Treasure Chest". It has 20 games in total, including:

Zork 1-3
Beyond Zork
Zork Zero
The Lurking Horror
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Planetfall
The Witness

And a whole bunch more! What's more, it even works fine under Windows XP! (Although Dosbox gives you a better layout). Would anyone be interested in me sending it in? I'm pretty sure it's still abandonware.

;)

[TheVoid]

Thank you very much for your offer, Ababo, but I already have many of those games.....we've plenty of games, we are in disperate search of REVIEWERS!!!! If you want to help (and maybe earn a VIP pass?) you can write some reviews for games on the list in page 1, or for others not present there, like some you mentioned above.

Let me know! ;)

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Well the thing is I'm not the best at writing reviews, I'm only just passing english, oh I had this really gay english test today, I'll be lucky if I passed. Also i wouldn't have a clue how to take screenshots. Also other people may like the gnome game its just that I don't. Also you could just download them yourself, Arthur is only 1 MB and the gnome game is only 400 KB and I'm sure you could write a better review than me anyday, and I'm assuming you know how to take screenshots.

[TheVoid]

Well, I don't expect a review to be a perfect gem of literature....You only have to describe briefly the game, what's your role and your objective, and some of your impressions about it; at the end, the mark you feel to award to the game (1-2-3-4-5, from worst to best). Just tell people it's a game that deserves being played, if you enjoyed doing that. I can eventually correct mistakes.

C'mon, don't be shy!!! :bleh:


How to take screenshots:while in DosBox, press Ctrl+F5, and the progrAM WIll store the snap in his proper folder in DosBox directory (e.g.C:\Program files\DosBox\snaps)

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Well I'll try my best. And I can't find my DosBox directory, I'm starting to think I don't even have DosBox. I'll keep searching.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Question: Do you have to download DosBox or does it usually come with everything?
Cause if you have to download it then I don't have it. And that would mean I been playing all these games without it.

[TheVoid]

DosBox is a program downloadable in the Internet which allows you to emulate pure DOS, which is required for many old games to run properly.....Don't bother with the screenshots, I'll do them by myself. Just concentrate on the review.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Ok. I have DosBox now, but some of my games dont run very smoothly. Is there a way to fix this. If there is try to put it in English, I'm not very good with all this computer jargon.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

I really couldn't be bothered writing a review. How about I do the screenshots and you do the review. I really like that idea.

[TheVoid]

Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow@Sep 16 2004, 07:12 AM
I really couldn't be bothered writing a review. How about I do the screenshots and you do the review. I really like that idea.
Bah. :yawn:
So be it, I'll do all by myself. <_<

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Alright thats cool. I could do the screenshots if you want. But if you want to do it all yourself than thats ok.

[Ioncannon]

LOL Lord of the Ring: the crack of doom: (http://users.erols.com/mychow/display/butt.jpg)

[Ioncannon]

besides the post with the butt crack, I can get Zork 2 and 3...

[Guybrush]

WTF!? I really did not want to see that...

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Yeah neither did I. But it is funny. :lol:

[TheVoid]

Do this Ioncannon. Make it a link instead of an image. It's kinda brutal to awake in the morning and see an ass is occupying your work place. :blink: :P

Zorks -apart from 1-are yours.

[FreeFreddy]

Originally posted by TheVoid@Sep 17 2004, 09:19 AM
Do this Ioncannon. Make it a link instead of an image. It's kinda brutal to awake in the morning and see an ass is occupying your work place. :blink: :P
A little cosmetical operation has been done. ;)

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Originally posted by TheVoid@Sep 17 2004, 07:19 AM
Do this Ioncannon. Make it a link instead of an image. It's kinda brutal to awake in the morning and see an ass is occupying your work place. :blink: :P


I don't mean to be rude or anything but the word is arse not ass.

[TheVoid]

Arse is english slang.
Ass is american slang - therefore more utilized. :whistle:

But you're free to call it in your favourite way. It's always a behind.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Actually arse is not slang it's a proper word.

[Guybrush]

Actually ass is a real word also; it's an animal by the proper defination. However the way they are both used today could be considered vulgar slang. Regardless, the word arse is just not used in this country. At least not by anyone I know. :)

[Havell]

Where did you get that quote from? Because "arse" came first but the Americans started saying "ass" because they couldn't be bothered to say the "r". Therefore ass is a varient of arse, not the other way round. And yes, if you look ass up in an (English) dictionary it will say that is means a donkey and it was a insult before it came to mean bottom because it is a very stupid, smelly kind of donkey.
Iron_Scarecrow is right.

[Guybrush]

I got the quote from Dictionary.com but later I found another dictionary that said it was not slang; so I removed it. I'll accept that arse is a real word but what difference does it make? People in this country say ass, and they will continue to do so so you can't say it's not correct. :)

Anyway this is all getting ridiculously off topic.

[TheVoid]

Exactly. :ot:

Post here only if you want to review Interactive Fiction games, upload them or generally talk about them. Not other kind of talking allowed (anymore)

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Originally posted by R Havell@Sep 17 2004, 05:56 PM
Where did you get that quote from? Because "arse" came first but the Americans started saying "ass" because they couldn't be bothered to say the "r". Therefore ass is a varient of arse, not the other way round. And yes, if you look ass up in an (English) dictionary it will say that is means a donkey and it was a insult before it came to mean bottom because it is a very stupid, smelly kind of donkey.
Iron_Scarecrow is right.
Haha. Score. :D

[TheVoid]

Stop it. Last warning. :sneaky:

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Haha :D ...Ok.

So how about that Zork game huh. Pretty cool aye.

[TheVoid]

Well, after some swearing and quite some days of work, I've finished the least to be put in the site. I hope other ppl continue their work, so that this section won't be considered a B-serie one. B)

Enjoy!!

[TheVoid]

Originally posted by TheVoid@Sep 8 2004, 05:42 PM
Welcome to the Text-Only Games Division of Abandonia!!!!

I have this games uploaded, which just need a good review....

Rogue
TheVoid

Zork 1
wendymaree

Zork 2
Ioncannon

Zork 3
Ioncannon

A Mind Forever Voyaging
TheVoid

The Hobbit

LOTR: Crack of Doom

LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring

Zyll

The Lurking Horror

The Kobayashi Alternative upload by Guybrush
Guybrush

Final Contact upload by Guybrush
Guybrush

Softporn Adventure upload by The_EgAt

Bureaucracy


Any help is well accepted!!!* :ok:
Just felt like updating the list....As always, wannabe-VIP reviewers are well accepted.... :)

[Red Diablo]

For finding me the great old Shannara, I thought I'd do you a favour and review one of your text-only games.
I'm sending Kosta some reviews tonight of games I've uploaded.
After that I'll take a game from your list. :ok:

[wormpaul]

why are text adventures always so difficult...

I never made any textadventure till the end without using walkthrough :twisted: :twisted:

[FreeFreddy]

It's because people earlier were thinking better than now, so the games were accordingly more fastidious. :P

[wormpaul]

Originally posted by FreeFreddy@Sep 29 2004, 06:27 PM
It's because people earlier were thinking better than now, so the games were accordingly more fastidious. :P
Maybe then i`m just born in the wrong time section...

I wanna go back to the future....

[FreeFreddy]

Heh, I would also like to see the future right now... :rolleyes: :D

[wormpaul]

Originally posted by FreeFreddy@Sep 29 2004, 06:36 PM
Heh, I would also like to see the future right now... :rolleyes: :D
Future:

Not more classic text games....but FEEL games...

Control your own body through a world of dragons and beautiful lady`s...and get a real feeling that`s familiar to your character in the gane...

I think that great adventures like Larry Suit Larry then will get a great boost :P

uuh...before a admin complains...isn`t this getting to offtopic??? :ot:

[TheVoid]

Well, it is. :sneaky:

Come back to Interactive Fiction world, please. ;)

[Red Diablo]

Yep, I'm upping this thread so people can review more text-games for TheVoid.

Come on people, these are classics. :ok:

[wormpaul]

Originally posted by Red Diablo@Oct 13 2004, 06:05 PM
Yep, I'm upping this thread so people can review more text-games for TheVoid.

Come on people, these are classics. :ok:
Sure they are...so everyone who loves it try to make a review!! :angel:

But i`m one of the people who dont love it...so sorry Red diablo..dont count on me :twisted: