please recommend some old graphical text adventure games

Sam

I remember a lot of old games where in each stage you'd have to type in instructions for the character and it would either do them, say it doesn't understand, or reprimand you. sometimes you could move, but mostly you'd have to type in the right instruction by looking around at stuff in the room to progress.
can anyone recommend any, and if they're freeware where to get them?

Interpreter

Your best bet would be to try looking around the Interactive Fiction Archive - http://www.ifarchive.org/ - which contains many resources, including a bunch of freeware IF games.

You can also try searching online for anyplace that still offers any of the Infocom compilation CDs for sale(Lost Treasures of Infocom, or Masterpieces of Infocom). Also, I think Legend Entertainment released a compilation type disc.

Restart

If you have never played Quest for Glory...

do it now!

(purchase necessary)

GSM

The last text adventure I played was Photopia. It was more of a short story, the length you could fit in a literary art magazine. Entirely linear, with no fail states. Rather beautiful, though.

RainbowDespair

Since it's on topic, I'm going to plug my XBox Live Indie Game, Epiphany in Spaaace! It's a text-based choose your own adventure. 80 Microsoft points ($1 USD) to download. Sci-fi parody. Link's in my sig or you could just grab it directly from XBox Live.

Also, my new text-based game, Molly the Were-Zompire is finished and will be submitted to XBox Live Indie Games tomorrow morning so expect to see it later this month. I'm pleased with how it turned out. It will also be going for 80 MS ($1 USD).

Elvenshae

Well, there's this game I'd love to recommend to you, but I can't for the life of me remember it. Maybe someone can help me with the name ... ?

Basically, you were trying to break into Dracula's castle in Wallachia and defeat him somehow. The adventure consisted, like most, of running around and picking up various items and combining them in interesting ways. I distinctly remember having to find a censer in order to stop some evil wind, and needing to stare down a spectre who asked riddles.

[EDIT: Wait - I don't think the spectre asked riddles - but there were riddles involved. They, naturally, involved checking the book that came with the game. Damn, damn, damn - what was it called?]

Man, I wish I could remember what that game was called, and find it again - I've never managed to actually beat it; Dracula kept eating me.

Also, my mom and I always played Cranston Manor together (back in the Apple ][e days) - that was fun, but we never managed to finish it.

freakish light

The specific subgenre that this kind of game belongs to is pretty hard to google for.

basically it's that weird transition period between straight text adventures and "classic" adventure games that are pure point and click.

I can think of a couple - the Hugo series, ala Hugo's House of Horrors, Leisure Suit Larry, and also the Sierra Quest games I think, but I can't remember specifically.

Elvenshae

freakish light wrote: »

The specific subgenre that this kind of game belongs to is pretty hard to google for.

Amen. Unless you are looking for a Sierra game, anyway.

EDIT:

Hahahah!

Found it! Thanks, MobyGames! Filtering by Apple ][ and "Interactive Fiction with Graphics" brought it right to the front! The game I was thinking of is [URL="http://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/crimson-crown"]The Crimson Crown[/URL]!

What a great game that was.

UncleSporky

Rohan

Basically anything developed by Magnetic Scrolls, and anything published by Rainbird is gold-pressed latinum.

corky842

UncleSporky wrote: »

All you need to know about that game.

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