Hamlet text adventure
This rocks http://www.robinjohnson.f9.co.uk/adventure/hamlet.html. Ah, for the lost treasures of Infocom.
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posted by Dr Ian Hocking at 9/15/2005 04:51:00 PM
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1 Comments:
get towel
Ah yeah, I remember infocom, level 9 and such like.
In the 80s they were called 'text adventures', and now they appear to be 'interactive fiction'. very cool.
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