Category: Accessible Games
Here's a text based adventure game that I found on the net. Looks accessible and fun.
If you used to read the "choose your own adventure" books as a kid and liked them, then I think you will love this.
It can be found at:
http://www.boraski.com/zork/index.html
Here is the introductory page (I think it will fit).
"Zork!
zork
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Remember those old choose-your-own-adventure books you used to have when you were six years old where you would flip from page to page creating the story
as you went along. Well, okay, maybe you don't. But I certainly do. It was my first experience with role-playing, and is probably some of the first hypertext
ever created. I've dug up a real gem of a book that cried out to me to be transcribed into HTML format. The original book is called "Zork, The Cavern Of
Doom" and was written by S. Eric Meretzky for Infocom, the same person and company that created the interactive adventures that were hugely popular back
in the days of forty columns. The book's copyright information follows. Scroll down to begin.
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely
coincidental.
Copyright (C) 1983 by Infocom, Inc.
ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
Interior illustrations by Dell Harris.
A TOR Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, 8-10 W. 36th St., New York, New York 10018
First printing, September 1983
ISBN: 0-812-57985-2
Printed in the United States of America
Distributed by Pinnacle Books, 1430 Broadway, New York, New York 10018
Welcome to the Kingdom of Zork!
You are bored. There's nothing on TV except some stupid reruns. You wander into your local book store and pick up an interesting-looking book entitled Zork:
The Cavern of Doom. As usual, you turn to the first page and begin reading.
The book is set in the magical land of Zork, where a new, incredibly rich underground realm has just been discovered. Dozens of adventurers have entered
The Cavern of Doom, but none have returned. Only YOU can save them! There are bad-tempered warlocks, huge diamonds, dragons, and a giant empire to explore.
It looks like this book is good!
Do you choose to save the kingdom? If so,
read on!
Or do you choose to
go home and watch reruns?
Activision and Zork are registered trademarks of
Activision, Inc.
© 1983, 1996
Activision, Inc.
Used with permission.
Chris Boraski"
Bob
it's not bad I played it a while ago, but since it's made on html, after you play it it's always the same. but for the first time you play it it's fun
seem will be interesting. let me try.
what is the url I have nothing
It's near the top of the message.
It's
http://www.boraski.com/zork/index.html
The case of the invisible URL.
Bob
Hmmm, that was pretty cool. Is that what all the online role play is like? Never played it.