Hi, folks!
 
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 10:45:46 -0600, Larry Boyd wrote:
|Thanks for the pointer, John.  It was interesting to revisit 'an old
|friend'.  I'm going to try to get the Win. version on my home pc and
|see if my kids would be as interested in it as I was.
|
|> Author:  John Dunlop <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
|>
|> If the following phrase "You are in a maze of twisty passageways, all alike."
|> means anything to anyone, they may be interested
|> to learn about it's origins. Visit the web site http://www.winternet.com/~radams
|>
|> Just for inquiring minds....though there seems to be an ommission in the
|> history as it doesn't mention anything about the HP3000.
 
Well, I spent many an hour on Adventure/Mansion/Dungeon/StarTrek/Zork/other
really interesting text-based games back in the misty past.  Last year, I
happened to come across a CDROM of most all the old Infocom classics,
including some of my favorite games of this sort.  I bought it, took it home
and started playing a couple of old favorites.  I had hopes that my kids
would see what was so magical about those puzzle games.  They are 10 and 12.
 
They were excited at first that I was going to show them some of my first
fun things I did on computers.  Then they saw how the game is played.  They
both looked at me puzzled and said something like "You just read and type?
It's just words on a screen??"  I never was able to explain it to them.
They both like to read.  They both like computer games.  I suppose in this
age of digitized speech and sound effects, amazing music quality, incredible
full motion video, ray-traced graphics, and fully interactive 3D animation,
that expecting them to be impressed by a text-based adventure game was too
much to hope.
--
Jeff Woods
[log in to unmask] at Unison Software
[log in to unmask]   at home
[PGP key available]
Native American proverb:
We did not inherit the Earth from our parents, nor they from theirs;
We are borrowing the Earth from our children, just as our parents did from us.