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    Text Adventures: Like Watching Paint Dry

    By Shane | August 18, 2006

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    Hardcore gamers between 1979 to 1985 weren’t fortunate enough to lap in the luxury of the games we have today. Back then computers were only capable of around 8 KB – 16 KB so the type of games they played were called text adventures, like Zork, and the idea was simply to control a character around the screen via key commands. It’s like the horse and buggy before the car; Laborious and stinky.

    Jason Scott, a Boston filmmaker and Unix system administrator is producing a documentary text adventure film aptly titled Get Lamp about the pioneers of the game era. He also made another documentary called BBS: The Documentary, which is of course about the solitary network Bulletin Board System just before we had this thing called the internet. Even though I’m just pushing 31, I do recall text adventures and BBS’s on the Commodore 64. These films would make an interesting comparison of the technologies we have today, and how far we’ve gone. I need to check these out.

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    • Paul
      I still play text games. Interactive Fiction as the kids call it these days.

      I find it kind of soothing to play, much like reading a book.
    • Lothar
      Ahh the old school days of gaming pre-Vic20.

      My favorite was the Star Trek game we used to play on our old DEC mainframe back in school.
    • Monstur
      It doesn't interest me really. It really is like watching paint dry. I need more stimulation!
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