** You have died. **

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

Do you wish to RESTART, RESTORE, UNDO or QUIT? >RESTART

** You are standing in an open field west of a white house. There is a mailbox in front. **

[lildreamer316]

1. Ooooh YES!!

I MISS those games!!

[The Straight Story]

3. You can Dl and play them for free now :)

Zork, Adventure, et al.

I still pull em out once in awhile for fun :)

[mreilly]

2. One version of Zork II allowed you to off the robot!

I know, it's mean to laugh at a poor robot's misfortune. But I remember playing Zork II in the 80's and telling the robot to jump down that well (I think "Robot, Jump" was the command. The obedient bucket of bolts did so, and my co-player and I rolled in the floor laughing at:

** The Robot has died **

For some reason I think that option was taken out of later Zork II releases however (apparently each of these games has various versions where bugs are corrected).

[The Straight Story]

4. Here they are for DL free:

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

[Spacemom]

5. Everything is blurry

Wear Spectacles.

Man, those were the days. I grew up on those games. :D

[hyphenate]

6. Go E

Check door at house
Check windows
Inventory
Take water, food, lamp
Go S
Open manhole cover
Take cage
Catch bird
Free bird
Find matches
"Plugh"


Strange as it may sound, I got really nostalgic about two months ago and had to find a copy of Adventure. I couldn't find it anywhere and then I remembered that "Zork" was derived from it, so I managed to find a copy of that. I believe that "Colossal Caves" was also based on it (I could be wrong?).

Games magazine actually had an article on it about 1987 or so, with a complete diagram of all the rooms and halls, and mapped them out relative to the cave levels and what was above or below.

I don't think I ever got through the whole thing because I didn't have the patience to do so.


BTW, great copycat thread! :)

[XemaSab]

7. *flashback*

:D

"You don't have that here."

[bridgit]

8. Reboot...

:bounce:

[AmyDeLune]

9. It is dark

you have been eaten by a Lurking Grue. :D Good Times!