Text Adventures - When authors pretend to be programmers and visa versa

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BiggerJ: May 21, 2007; What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.

At least some of Infocom's games required included items called 'feelies' in order to be beaten as a form of copy protection. Here's all the feelies.

And if we're posting links to the games themselves, here's an alternate site for them with games missing from the OP's link.

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 07:44

BiggerJ: May 21, 2007; What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.

al-azad posted:

Legend Entertainment was like the Image Comics of the scene. They put out a lot of experimental or subversive material with a very friendly UI. You can play Timequest for free while most of their catalog can be easily found with some Google-fu.

Well if we're going to link to Archive.org let's go bananas.

Spellcasting 101
Spellcasting 201
Timequest
Gateway
Spellcasting 301
Eric the Unready
Gateway 2 - Homeworld

Manuals, copy protection feelies and hintbooks

# ¿ Mar 3, 2016 13:56

BiggerJ: May 21, 2007; What shall we do with him? A permaban, perhaps? Probate him for a few years? Or...shall we employ a big red custom title? You, the goons of SA, shall decide his fate.

Milky Moor posted:

I was really getting into this... but you need the Compendium book to progress.

As an Australian, this is unfortunate.

And weirdly, the site implies that it will never be reprinted after copies run out.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2016 12:22

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