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Get Lamp
Jason Scott is at it again! The director of the excellent "BBS: The Documentary" has announced his next project, "Get Lamp", a documentary about computer text adventures!
Back when I was a Color Computer young user in the early 80's, above any graphic and action rom pak game, I got most of my gaming fun with text adventures. Sometimes accompanied with still graphics, the game explains a setting and requires the player's imagination and careful spelling to be able to move on.
My favorite games at the time were ones released by a company called Mark Data, such as Trekboer, The Vortex Factor and Calixto Island. Those games were text adventures with graphics, and one of the appeals I remember was that some screens had subtle animations.
Here's an example with the starting location in Trekboer:
I'm in a control room.
Obvious directions: South, East, West.
I see: a plaque, a blue button, a red button, a
ladder, a view screen.
OK, READ PLAQUE
It says:
S.S. TREKBOER
Commissionned 2038
OK,
Yum.
These old games are available for free download in versions for CoCo, Mac and PC, from co-creator Bob Withers' site. I'm tempted to play them all again.
Posted on October 21, 2005 at 17:11 | Tweet
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