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Get Lamp is a documentary about interactive fiction (a genre that includes text adventures) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com. Scott conducted the interviews between February 2006 and February 2008, and the documentary was released in July 2010.
Sam Machkovech of Ars Technica called the game "a clever way to interpret the gushing fountain of data that is Wikipedia's API". [1] Stephanie Chan of GamesBeat called it "cold and alien" when she first played and saw descriptions of the places, but said that she later realized that one could further interact with locations, such as examining things and talking to people.
9:05 is an interactive fiction game developed by Adam Cadre in 2000. The story follows a man who wakes up and gets a call telling him to go to work, and it follows branching paths.
A reviewer for Next Generation scored the compilation a perfect five out of five stars. He praised the "functionally comprehensive" selection of Infocom games and the six Interactive Fiction Competition games, estimated the total playtime at 1,200 hours minimum, and said the gameplay "represents the pinnacle of well written, interactive fiction."
The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.
Amnesia is a text adventure written by science fiction author Thomas M. Disch and programmed by Kevin Bentley. It was published by Electronic Arts in 1986 for IBM PC compatibles (as a self-booting disk) and Apple II. A Commodore 64 version was released in 1987. Disch's ironic, rich writing style is in distinct contrast to the functional or ...
Wander is both a text adventure game and a tool for creating interactive fiction; it describes itself as "a tool for writing non-deterministic fantasy stories". [2] The game comes with one such story, named "a3", along with instructions for authors to write their own stories that the game can parse.
Warp is a text adventure game, written in the early 1980s by Rob Lucke and Bill Frolik for the Hewlett-Packard HP 3000.. The game was never officially released, but found widespread distribution through the HP INTEREX user community.