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Title: It's some old timey games
Post by: bruce on October 17, 2006, 10:59:35 AM

Before we had PS, PS2, X Box, Nintendo, and so on. We had Infocom and they ruled. Here are the first three Zorks to d/l:

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html

Title: Re: It's some old timey games
Post by: Ynyr on October 17, 2006, 05:24:58 PM

Can't get Classic to start on my laptop anymore.  :-[

Those were games that truly tested the limits of the mind, though.  Would anything that conceptually challenging be released in these dark days of manual dexterity?

Title: Re: It's some old timey games
Post by: Matthew_S on October 25, 2006, 10:20:38 AM

for those who enjoy this type of game, the infocom tradition lives on

http://ifarchive.org/

Title: Re: It's some old timey games
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on October 25, 2006, 05:04:33 PM

I wish someone would revive the Zork series <sigh>.