Now I understand why as a youngster I was warned off dungeon and dragon-type games and Ouija boards. See what happens when you play them?
It’s “Presidential Zork”. I laughed my @$$ off.
Iowahawk is wicked funny.
Dave Burge is a right-wing treasure. He goes from strength to strength.
I’d forgotten all about Adventure until I read this! I love the format… brings it all back.
The content, now, THAT’s good intertainment.
[sic]
Ahahaha! “Hillary: Reset button.”
And the rest of it – one line better than another.
that’s what I needed after my day. Thanks, Neo and Beverly!
[and Iowahawk, of course]
Ah, us long term gamers like this type of humor (Not old gamers – I’m not old yet just halfway to what my MTBD (that is Mean Time Between Death) would say I have to live).
Zork was what I thought of too, though I played a number of “graphical” versions too that had the same interface yet had high resolution pictures of what the scene looked like (well, high resolution for the time – one of the Hechee games was in full 256 color 640×480 glory!). I think I still have a CD with a Zork game on it that did this.
I still play a text game from time to time too. I like to think it isn’t just Old Man Syndrome and would find them enjoyable no matter what. “Hunt the wumpus” isn’t a good example, nor really is Adventure – but Zork is entertaining still and so is Wizardry.
They are not really the same thing as playing a video game nowadays, but more like the old “interactive” books kids still read where at the end of a page you make a decision and go read the page it tells you.
Frankly I almost have to wonder with the advent of e-books if this genre should have a come-back – maybe something less puzzle oriented than Zork, much more story oriented so it is an interesting read each time through. More dialog and most of your story lines mostly follow the same path but not *exactly* the same read each time. Sadly I think the biggest block is our educational system that pushes conformity instead of creativity – few are trained to be original writers, most are trained to critique others works and that is considered “original”.
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Now I understand why as a youngster I was warned off dungeon and dragon-type games and Ouija boards. See what happens when you play them?
It’s “Presidential Zork”. I laughed my @$$ off.
Iowahawk is wicked funny.
Dave Burge is a right-wing treasure. He goes from strength to strength.
I’d forgotten all about Adventure until I read this! I love the format… brings it all back.
The content, now, THAT’s good intertainment.
[sic]
Ahahaha! “Hillary: Reset button.”
And the rest of it – one line better than another.
that’s what I needed after my day. Thanks, Neo and Beverly!
[and Iowahawk, of course]
Ah, us long term gamers like this type of humor (Not old gamers – I’m not old yet just halfway to what my MTBD (that is Mean Time Between Death) would say I have to live).
Zork was what I thought of too, though I played a number of “graphical” versions too that had the same interface yet had high resolution pictures of what the scene looked like (well, high resolution for the time – one of the Hechee games was in full 256 color 640×480 glory!). I think I still have a CD with a Zork game on it that did this.
I still play a text game from time to time too. I like to think it isn’t just Old Man Syndrome and would find them enjoyable no matter what. “Hunt the wumpus” isn’t a good example, nor really is Adventure – but Zork is entertaining still and so is Wizardry.
They are not really the same thing as playing a video game nowadays, but more like the old “interactive” books kids still read where at the end of a page you make a decision and go read the page it tells you.
Frankly I almost have to wonder with the advent of e-books if this genre should have a come-back – maybe something less puzzle oriented than Zork, much more story oriented so it is an interesting read each time through. More dialog and most of your story lines mostly follow the same path but not *exactly* the same read each time. Sadly I think the biggest block is our educational system that pushes conformity instead of creativity – few are trained to be original writers, most are trained to critique others works and that is considered “original”.