"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"
This is for the old school gamers...the REALLY old school gamers

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Adventure: Crowther's original source code found

Colossal Caverns was the first IF (interactive fiction, AKA text adventure) game ever, predating Zork (the most famous). I remember playing a version of it waaaaay back in the day, on my Commodore 64 Up till now, the source code (in FORTRAN) was thought lost. Well...someone found it. It was found in a backup of somebody's Stanford student account (which is amazing, considering how many decades ago the program was created)where to buy abortion pill ordering abortion pills to be shipped to house buy abortion pill online

Yeah, I've played "Adventure". Not when it was _new_, obviously (I wasn't born yet!) but I remember playing it on one of my brother's old computers. I forget which one. It was a something86 DOS one that was, like the others, a computer that his friend's family didn't want anymore, so they gave it to us. My family got most of its early computers due to _their_ upgrading. Heh.

Anyway. Never could figure it out, back then in the days before we had access to whatever version of the Internet may have existed and before GameFAQS was even a gleam in anyone's eye, but we gave it our all. Drawing our own maps and stuff in an attempt to figure out what was where, and so forth.
To this day, I still _suck_ at adventure games, but still love them anyway. Go figure. :P

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Text Adventures = Best video games ever.

I made one several years back, It's not a true text game, as it uses a point and click based interface. Took me 8 months of 10 hour days to program the complex strings of conditional modifiers (if you're in the dark cavern and you have the lamp then the light shows). Some of these strings wre over 80 modifiers long!

Anyway, I need to crack open my text adventure gaming. I used to have a (near) complete library of Infocom games on my PDA. Sadly, I dropped it last year.

I would love to make one. I wrote this fantasy trilogy back in high school, and have since been toying with it, re-writing it, polishing it up, etc. and one of the main things I always want to do with it "someday" is make it into some kind of game. Either a graphical RPG, since it's already got a whole kingdom with a real map and a plotted out storyline and all kinds of hazards and everything, or a text adventure.
(The RPG version would have to be done oldschool-looking like with the RPG maker were I to make it nowadays, but that's okay since when I _first_ imagined my story as a video RPG, that "oldschool" style is just what they ALL looked like. I'm thinkin' like Dragon Warrior here. Or NES Zelda. That kinda style. Maybe a little FFIV-VI action at the fanciest.)

What is stopping me? The fact that even though I can write a story, _I cannot program_. Not a lick. Well, I used to be able to do it a bit in BASIC, and in fact I once made up a Choose Your Own Adventure type thing in BASIC. That's as close to a text adventure as I came.

For the record, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text game _is_ a great (but hard!) game...but it is not the original version of that story by a long shot, nor was the movie based off of the game. Also, do not mention that thing called a "movie". That thing Does Not Exist for us REAL Hitchhiker's fans.
Anyway, the order of the versions of the Hitchhiker's Guide, all of which at least slightly contradict all the others...
1. The original BBC radio show.
2. The beginning of the book series.
3. The text game.
4. The BBC TV miniseries, which is the only REAL visual version of it--despite the low budget (and also partially _because_ of it, in a way) thank you VERY much.
5. Later books, comic book interpretations, etc.
6. THEN the movie, if you wish to count that.

Hey, Kids!! Here's a Secret Hint!!
Well, not really. But if you go here, you can play the original Hitchhiker's text game online for FREE now! Legal, official, and with a save game ability and everything! Whoo!
AND, it now has illustrations. Done in the original neon-line "computer graphics" style (which was actually backlighting, heh) of the TV miniseries, so double whoo.

Shutting up now...

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Yes, I knew that. Haven't yet _seen_ that Doctor Who episode, but hope to someday.

As for the movie...reports vary on how much Adams had to do with it, is all I can say. All I know is, one thing will say he wrote a lot of it, then the next thing will say it was "loosely based off of" his original script outline, etc. I prefer to just think of it as up in the air and leave it that way. The movie...it was just way too Hollywooded and Disneyfied up, for me. The overall _feel_ wasn't Hitchhiker's anymore, and I feel the new stuff that was added in just plain wasn't _funny_.
But don't get me started on that travesty. I could go on all DAY about the things that were wrong with that thing...

Of course, this wouldn't be the first time I disagreed with something Adams wrote--or even the first time he sorta disagreed with himself. The original book ending of "Mostly Harmless" was depressing as hell, but the modern-day _radio_ version, which was also written by Adams, has a much cheerier (if _weird_) ending. So, again, that's another case where you can basically go with whichever version you happen to LIKE best. :P

Anyway. Sorry to get so off-topic here. Shutting up again...

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He also did a text game called "Beuracracy" (I always spell that wrong, but you know what I mean) that's quite funny as well, very much in the same vein of humour as HHG...that one you're on your own to find, however. And then there's Starship Titanic, but in that case, don't bother--it SEVERELY doesn't work on a Windows XP computer. I know, I _have_ the bloody thing. It's about to the level of trying to get Discworld 2 to work with XP. Ugh.

Anyway...I don't think I've played Lurking Horror, but I should probably check it out sometime. I love text adventure games. I have to be in the right mood for them--which usually involves rain/cool weather, for some reason--but when I am, they're great fun.

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