The Escapist's Allen Varney discusses Infocom's classic text adventures and provides an overview of the genre. Has anyone out there actually played the Leather Goddesses of Phobos?
If you're under 38, you're now saying, "Huh?" Text games (or, as some called them, "interactive fiction") were once the most popular electronic games. Yet they vanished overnight from store shelves, driven into darkness by the IBM PC's EGA and VGA graphics adapters. |