Adventure Games

My first true love of the computer universe was Infocom.  This company made Adventure games, more specifically, Text Adventure games.  These were games that were both fun and mondo annoying.  They were fun as they were often funny and zany and they had all kinds of off the wall references.  They were annoying as you could never be sure exactly what the game writers wanted you to type into the text line.  They were also a bit more challenging than modern games-as there was no Universal Hint System to sneak a peek or grab an instant solution to a tough…

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