BazzaLBPrivate Detective
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Joined: 27 AUG 2005
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mark (3 MAY 2006 4:26pm)
Well, to be honest, I struggled with a text-based game on a mainframe but not sure what it was. A friend was a programmer and worked late in computer services for IBM:
"Mark! You GOT to see this!"
Possibly it was "Star Trek"? I think it was.
Ahh yeah, good old "Star Trek" with sectors quadrants, "*" "." and "+".. haha, that was a cool game for its day. I played it on a DG Eclipse.
My first adventure game was on that same machine too.. ZORK (The full version). I seem to remember saying this many times now, but never get sick of the recollection.
I played quite a lot of text adventures on my trusty TRS80 too. Pyramid 2000 is one that stands out as one of the earliest I played. Oh there was probably one earlier than that called "Haunted House" or something.. I kept getting killed by some levitating knife in the middle of a room. Tried all sorts of things to get past without success until I got so frustrated I simply said "Take knife" and it worked :
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AntoinettaIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 22 OCT 2002
Status : Online | My first game was a charming, although tough little gem called Altered Destiny. This was in '92 and '93, and the game came on six or seven 3.5 inch floppies. I didn't even have a computer then, but my neighbour had a 386 and introduced me not only to the game, but to computer gaming as well. Altered Destiny has a score-counter, like the Gabriel Knight games, and as I recall we got about a third of the way through the game. The game was part point and click and part text, you had a text-bar with a cursor as well as the mouse cursor. You would move your character via point and click, then type in various questions/commands when you had moved the character (this dude that gets transported into an alternate universe by being sucked into a TV set he is watching) to where you wanted to perform the action. Usually, these were simple commands like "take sword" or "grab vine", but the game's vocabulary wasn't that extensive, and there were some frustrating times trying to come up with the exactly proper wording.
Then, one day in the latter part of 1993, we forgot about Altered Destiny pretty much for good. My friend, Jan came over and asked me to come down and look at what she had up on her machine, by now, I believe, a 486. I went over, and I stared when I saw, in all its colour and crystal-clarity, Achenar's bedroom in the original 256 colour version of Myst. So we plugged away at Myst for about two years, making good progress, but not finishing the game. All this, of course, was before you could just jump online for a moment to snag a walk-thru when you get stuck. But then Jan moved away, and I didn't play any games until I got my first computer, a Pentium II laptop early in 2000. And the first game I played then, that I bought at the same time I bought the computer, was Gabriel Knight III......and a year or so after that, I went back and finally finished Myst.
Antoinetta
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