Text adventures!

[Jan Duin]

jan im trying to find yiur greek gods game ive a thing for myths

Thanks! Would love to revisit that bugger.

Tapatalked from my Galaxy SIII

 

[DrainoBraino]

Oh man this brings back some frustrating gaming memories. I can't think of the game's name but it was some kind of mythological story involving the ancient Greek Gods (so basically everything was possible..)
Would love to play this again and finish it.

What did you play this on? Might help in finding it.

 

[Jan Duin]

The powerful Atari ST 512!! Anyone remember Populous, Falcon and Carrier command?

Tapatalked from my Galaxy SIII

 

[Heretic]

*hrins* the st has a special place with me for symth but im amire a sid orginal fan

 

[shutyertrap]

I remember being tortured by one for the Apple IIe called 'Kidnapped' (I think)

Stuck up on the ninth floor of a building, trying to get do the bottom. We got so frustrated not being able to do even the simplest of tasks, like using a vending machine, that we cracked open the game code so we could see every command prompt the game would recognize. Even with the list of 250+ words we found, STILL couldn't get any farther than the 6th floor! I think we couldn't figure out how to tie a string to a helium balloon that would take us down one floor.

Stupid text adventures. First time I saw one with graphics I think my head nearly exploded.

 

[Heretic]

Heh been there bud

 

[DrainoBraino]

The powerful Atari ST 512!! Anyone remember Populous, Falcon and Carrier command?

Tapatalked from my Galaxy SIII

Oh but of course! ST was my go to game machine. Prince of Persia, Barbarian, Chronoquest, King's Quest, anything with quest in it! The king of all ST rpg games-------> Dungeon Master. Still play that one.

I believe the game you are talking about is Myth. It was not available for purchase, so you probably got it pirated (imagine that... a pirated ST game )

 

[Jan Duin]

Dungeon Master!! That game freaked me out, the graphics were so realistic

Myth! Will have to look that up, thanks!

 

[Jeff Strong]

I really enjoyed the early Sierra adventure games where you had to type everything in (Kings Quest, Quest for Glory, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry), and later point and click versions were fun as well.

Quest for Glory: Hero's Quest 1 was my fav:

And here's the VGA remake:

 

[sotnwaffle]

Probably my favorite text adventure was "Adventure", followed by what was called "Dungeon" at the time (Zork stuff). I was excited to learn Adventure was based on a real cave in Kentucky.

 

[Lord Boron]

Infocom's Leather Goddesses of Phobos!