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Glitch: The Text Adventure, and Other Fun with Playfic
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Nearly a year ago, my nephew Cooper and I launched Playfic, a community for writing and sharing interactive fiction games from your browser. I haven't talked about the site much, and have barely touched it since we launched, but I've been delighted...
From Colossal Cave to The Walking Dead: The legacy of Interactive Fiction
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The enormously popular Walking Dead video game series can trace its lineage directly back to the dawn of video games One of the best Mac and iOS game series of the past couple of years is based on The Walking Dead, the popular graphic novel and TV series...
Many many thanks for replying :D, anyway, are there any obscure text adventure games you could recommend?
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I used to love playing the Synapse Software text adventures on my C64 back in the day: Mindwheel (1984), Essex (1985) and (my personal favorite) Brimstone (1985). Synapse built a really great text parser for them called BTZ (Better Than Zork). It worked...
BBC 30th Anniversary Hitchhiker’s Guide Adventure Game
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To celebrate its 30th anniversary the BBC has created and launched a new web based Hitchhiker’s Guide adventure game, which is now available to play on the BBC website I love the original book by Scott Adams, then Infocom came out with the Text...
BBC revives Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game
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Rocketeers: The BBC has produced a web-based version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game, first published by Infocom Inc. in 1984. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game - 30th Anniversary Edition -- BBC Radio 4 Extra

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