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t. e. A text game or text-based game is an electronic game that uses a text-based user interface, that is, the user interface employs a set of encodable characters, such as ASCII, instead of bitmap or vector graphics. All text-based games have been well documented since at least the 1960s, when teleprinters were interlaced with mainframe ...
Based on The Lord of the Rings. Star Trader. 1982. Bretten Au, Kevin Ryan, Kent Beck, Ron Lumsden, and James Walters. A space game originally hosted on University of Oregon 's mainframe computer. Avon. 1983. Jonathan Partington. Shakespearean adventure game originally hosted on Cambridge University 's Phoenix mainframe.
Colossal Cave Adventure running on a PDP-11/34 with a monitor, showing the point system. Colossal Cave Adventure is a text-based adventure game wherein the player explores a mysterious cave that is rumored to be filled with treasure and gold. The player must explore the cave system and solve puzzles by using items that they find to obtain the ...
Zork is a text adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer.The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded and split the game into three titles—Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz, and Zork III: The Dungeon Master—which were released ...
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. [1] The genre 's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative -based media, such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of genres.
The original text-based game is effectively presented in the top-left window, and additional graphical interface elements added for the anniversary edition. The Hitchhiker's Guide is a text adventure game in which the player, in the role of Arthur Dent, solves a number of puzzles to complete various objectives to win the game. This includes ...
A map of Pirate Adventure world by Aaron A. Reed from 50 Years of Text Games project. Published by Adventure International and the second game of the series, after Adventureland, this text-based adventure game was one of many adventure games created by Scott Adams, [1] in this case based on his wife Alexis's ideas. [2]
Wander is text adventure written by Peter Langston in 1974. It is one of the earliest text adventure video games in existence, predating Colossal Cave Adventure. [1] The game was originally coded in BASIC [2] on a mainframe computer with multiple databases to create the worlds that formed the game. [3] It was distributed in Langston's PSL Games ...