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Pac-Txt: A Pac-Man Text Adventure
I'm not sure what's more soul-crushing—that someone took the effort to write a web-based Pac-Man text adventure in the style of Zork or that I just spent fifteen minutes ensuring that it adhered to the maze layout perfectly. Regardless, your semi-daily reminder that someone has far too much time on their hands is at the official Pac-Txt site.
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'The History of Zork'
Gamasutra has published the second installment of its series that "present[s] in-depth histories of the first ten games voted into the Digital Game Canon," and the subject this time is Zork. It's a fun look back, and perhaps forward - at least according to the author, who says flat out that "My goal is to persuade you that the text adventure is still a viable genre for modern gamers, even in an age when software and hardware developers are making breakthrough after breakthrough in graphics and animation." More »
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The 10 Most Important Video Games
Henry Lowood, the curator of the Stanford University History of Science and Technology Collections, announced this past week a list of the 10 Most Important Video Games of All Time. This game canon has been created to preserve to cultural and historical significance of gaming. The list is a result of a collaboration between Lowood, Warren Spector, Steve Meretzky, academic researcher Matteo Bittani and gaming journalist Christopher Grant from Joystiq, and represents the games we must protect at all costs...our cultural artifacts. More »
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Adventure Gamers Adventure To AdventureCon
Celebrating thirty (THIRTY!) years of Zork and twenty years of Leisure Suit Larry, the Las Vegas AdventureCon will act as the meeting ground for gamers who love the dying point-click-read genre. More »
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Gen Con 2006: The Heart of Dorkness
Slashdot Games' Zonk has quite a lengthy and in-depth piece up looking at this year's Gen Con 2006, or the heart of dorkness, as he calls it. More »
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ZAsterisk: Play Zork By Phone!
Back when I was 4, I spent a great deal of time being gently irradiated by my mother's work unix terminal, playing the meager selection of remote text games installed on the New England Telephone mainframe. Go Fish was about the only one that I was good at; Rogue was my favorite. And I never had any idea what the hell to do in Zork. More »
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We don't know where this came from, but it's pretty funny. A small group of stones as they might theoretically be rendered in videogames from Asteroids to Zelda. And there's space for you to provide your own! Seriously, if you have any idea where these came from, let us know. We like to give credit where it's due.
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Polygons Meet Pebbles
We don't know where this came from, but it's pretty funny. A small group of stones as they might theoretically be rendered in videogames from Asteroids to Zelda. And there's space for you to provide your own! Seriously, if you have any idea where these came from, let us know. We like to give credit where it's due.
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