Retro Games

Hacks 6367: Introduction You kids today are so spoiled! Back in the day, video games didn't have your so-called fancy graphics. In fact, many of them didn't have graphics at all! In this chapter, you'll learn all about text adventures, which also go...

One of the best things about interactive fictionthe fancy-schmancy name for text adventures, but also a good catchall term for the type of game, since they don't always strictly rely upon textis how easy it is to get up and running with a game. Insta...

The community of text adventure authors isn't huge, even by Internet subculture standards, but they still produce enough output that someone brand new to the format can feel bewildered about where to start looking. The central archive is vast and int...

In the beginning, there was Adventure. Widely accepted as the first text adventure game, Adventure (a.k.a. Colossal Cave) was written around 1975 by Will Crowther, programmer and spelunker. The game was very rudimentary, based on a map of a real-wor...

Over the past several years, the electronic gaming community has been aglow over the advent of graphical Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs). From Ultima Online and Everquest to World of Warcraft, these games have been renowned fo...

Text adventures (also known as interactive fiction) have been around for decades. While these are broad terms, they usually conjure thoughts of a large array of sectioned-off areas, each with its own unique description, items, and traversable paths. ...