I just bumped into some old games that have been reissued for the iPad on iTunes. They are text based adventures and are packaged as "The Lost Treasures of Infocom." What a hoot - I'm playing Zork and am madly plotting the locations on graph paper (which is great fun). You can pay about $10 and get all sorts of maps and hints if you want.
Apparently these were the predecessors of the whole D and D genre. Fun little change of pace for those of us who have never seen this stuff before.
Really old games
- Kreador Freeaxe
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Re: Really old games
D&D was created before video games...but, yes, the text adventures like Zork were the earliest versions of them brought to computer systems. I remember Zork being a lot of fun in the ancient days on my TRS-80 Model III.
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Re: Really old games
Earlier than TRS-80 (model I for me!) or Apple II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure.
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Re: Really old games
I remember the if, then, goto statements we made our games from in Jr high.
after that, i hated programming and stopped lol
after that, i hated programming and stopped lol
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Re: Really old games
Well... grab a pencil and a stack of paper and get stuck in.