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guitar hero
You Are Standing In Front Of Guitar Hero West Of A White House...
Guitar Hero's been played out. Colours pass in front of you, you mash a button, music plays, life goes on. If only there was a way to take the core mechanics and make them fresh. More »
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Comment by Marlor: GHTA I: The Great Underground Music Empire Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983, 2009 Herocom, Inc. All rights reserved. GHTA is a registered... 3 Responses | Other threads
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infocom
Lifetime Sales Figures For...Infocom!
Jason Scott, connoisseur of all things old-timey, knows (and loves) his gaming history. His Flickr gallery shows this. It also shows, remarkably, that he's got a copy of the lifetime sales figures of a bunch of Infocom games. Infocom being the developers of games like Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. It's fascinating stuff, especially when you consider that shifting 380,000 units of Zork between 1981 and 1986 is, relatively, shifting a lotta units. More » -
iphone
The iPhone Just Became A Text Adventure Goldmine
iPhone gaming just got a shot in the arm with the release of Frotz, an interactive fiction (aka text adventure) app that's free to download. With it, iPhone owners can while away the hours with dozens of text-only games, getting lamps, facing north, being frozen by wizards... all that fun stuff! That means you have another opportunity to play Zork, Trinity or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy should the only high-def visuals you require be ultra smooth fonts. More » -
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A History of Interactive Fiction
This is an oldie (appearing in 2006) but goodie if you're interested in interactive fiction — Jimmy Maher wrote a lengthy, well-written and comprehensive history of interactive fiction, from Eliza to the era of Infocom to the state of IF today. It's a fascinating wrap up, even if you're not one of the handful of active IF players; but IF's fall from commercial grace hasn't stopped IF creators from trundling on to creating bigger and better things: More »
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Comment by pylon_trooper: Frederik Pohl's Gateway made my day, way back when. more » | Other threads
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pac-man
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. More » -
history really is fun!
'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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Comment by FlapjacksAreTasty: those idiots couldn't even get Marc LeBlanc's name right. MARC LE BLANC != MARK BLANK more » | Other threads
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history
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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By Mike FaheyComment by rpatnode: @Volante3192: You are correct. Henry Lowood was my professor/advisor. They will be adding 10 more games at each year's GDC.... more » | Other threads
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zork
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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Comment by quen: @Huginn: yeah, modern text adventures are really impressive IMO in how far they've come from things like Zork (while still... more » | Other threads
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Comment by ZeroMP: Actually I was just referencing this Penny Arcade which kinda makes dalziel_86's point. I just assume everyone on Kotaku reads... more » | Other threads
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adventure
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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By kotaku.comComment by Fer: This was posted first on Gamesetwatch. You should have stated the source. >: more » | Other threads
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