Re: Open Zorkce

From	Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure
Subject	Re: Open Zorkce
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Date	2025-11-26 08:56 -0500

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On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:21:21 +0200, Anssi Saari
<anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

>Before it was stuff like the Scott Adams text adventure games that were
>on carts for the VIC-20. Verb noun parser so pretty simple. Also The
>Hobbit on ZX Spectrum, I remember it had graphics which it slowly *drew*
>everytime you went to a different room. RAM limitations back then.

Yeah, I still have The Hobbit text advent rue box buried away
somewhere in my garage for the C-64. I remember the graphics drawing
very slowly as well. The game came with a physical copy of The Hobbit
book and I think that was the first book I ever read.

>I never got much anywhere with any of the text only games. I remember I
>managed something called Gruds in Space, and also Tass Times in Tonetown
>which were text adventures with graphics. These had puzzles that weren't
>completely ridiculous of the "try everything with everything everywhere"
>kind. Or maybe they were just easy.

I own Tass Times in Tonetown as well and it too is buried away along
with The Hobbit. I never finished it. I rarely finished games back
then. Gruds in Space I never heard of.

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  Re: Open Zorkce Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2025-11-23 10:01 -0500
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    Re: Open Zorkce Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2025-11-23 16:17 -0600
    Re: Open Zorkce Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-11-26 13:21 +0200
      Re: Open Zorkce Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2025-11-26 08:56 -0500
      Re: Open Zorkce Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2025-11-26 09:18 -0600
  Re: Open Zorkce Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2025-11-23 11:22 -0500
  Re: Open Zorkce Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2025-11-23 16:15 -0600

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