OT: Oldies but Goodies

[Kamog]

Those text-based adventure games were fun. I remember all the commands were keyboard-based, like [N]orth, [S]outh, [W]est, [E]ast, [u]p, [D]own, [F]ight, [G]et, [L]ook, etc. I never finished any of those games because I always got hopelessly lost in the labyrinths (I was too lazy to map things out on a piece of paper). I sort of just randomly wandered around all over the place, fighting stuff, picking up treasure and eventually getting killed.

Then there were those text-based games that had ascii graphics. The rooms were drawn using #### for walls or something, and there were characters like "r" and "S" and stuff moving around that represented monsters and different objects. I forget what the game was called. Never finished that one one either. I kept running out of food and starving to death. Or I'd eat some dead carcass out of desperation and get poisoned. It got kind of depressing after a while.