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unusual facts about text adventure



Command-line interface

The text adventure The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a piece of interactive fiction based on Douglas Adam's book of the same name, is a teletype-style command-line game.

Conrad R. Button

Conrad R. Button is a text game programmer who created a series of educational and recreational shareware text adventure titles distributed via BBSs and through Reasonable Solutions catalogs as "Button Games."

Large Emerald

:The large emerald is also one of the Twenty Treasures of Zork from the Infocom text adventure Zork I.

Perseus and Andromeda

Perseus and Andromeda is a text adventure game released in 1983 by Digital Fantasia on the Mysterious Adventures label.


see also

Frenetic

The Frenetic Five, a series of interactive fiction ("text adventure") games for a wide variety of platforms

Hello, sailor

"Hello, sailor" is used as a running joke in the interactive fiction-text adventure Zork universe.

Magnetic Scrolls

Incorporating auto-mapping, icons, help functions and separate, resizable windows for graphics and text, Wonderland, written by David Bishop and based on the works of Lewis Carroll, was a deliberate attempt to push the text adventure in a new, hi-tech direction.

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

A text adventure game adaption based on the book was developed and published by Domark, and released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Atari XL, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers.

Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All The Girls

The text adventure game Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All The Girls is the first installment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky during his time at Legend Entertainment.

Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance

The text adventure game Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance is the second instalment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky during his time at Legend Entertainment.

Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

The text adventure game Spellcasting 301: Spring Break is the third and last installment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky during his time at Legend Entertainment.