If all games were text adventures...

Propose new game/software design concepts or new game/software ideas. They can be as whimsical as you like, just be careful you don't ask someone to make it for you...
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If all games were text adventures...

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Just a bit of fun

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"Turn off music"

This is pretty great.
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Heh nice. Is that just for demo purposes, or is it functional for the whole level?

Eugene's Lair: You can see a key, it's right by the exit...
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That was the idea if the Real Adventures of Dr Robbie PSSST.
You can do the same things as PSSST but in text adventure..
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Quite good. I'm sure several CSSCGC entries have also demade arcade games into text adventures, although the names of any escape me at the moment
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"Top Gun 2 MaveRick Dangerous"... The most action that could possible fit in an adventure
.Dogfight with the latest fighter planes and try to avoid and destroy the latest ground defence systems.The only game that you can actually nuke the president of the USA (indirectly)...
"Real adventures of Cookie Man" an attempt to
port "Cookie" to the adventure genre.
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believe it or not there is an aeroplane fighting text adventure for the spectrum
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And also believe it or not, there is a text game on C64 about a game of basketball.

No, no management. The actual game :)

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As to chess games, they would be still chess games just with an original interface.
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You could adapt Lords of Midnight to a text adventure without losing any functionality.

'Luxor the Moonprince stands on the Plains of the Moon. He is invigorated. North, in the middle distance, he sees a hill. Behind that, more plains and behind that is a mountain. Northeast, close by, are some frankly massive wolves. Behind those, plains. Behind that, hills. Behind that, mountains. There is a keep in those mountains. East, he sees a group of linebackers.' And so on.

I don't recommend that anyone do this.
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You see a key dangling above you attached to a bush.

>Jump

You are impaled on the bush and die.



Gordo Greatbelly and Derek Brewster would be having to explain the solution to that one for years. It would be up there with the pale bulbous eyes.
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"jump properly"
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I must mention here the first CSSCGC games I played
-Tetris the adventure (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/3 ... _Adventure) . You should try it if you find it... :)
-Dark room simulator

These games inspired me to enter the CSSCGC universe.

(note: I didn't know then what a "CSSCGC" was - I thought it was just a contest , so before I played them I thought they were serious games in a serious competition)
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https://bobs-stuff.itch.io/text-only-grand-prix-2009

"The thrills and spills of F1 racing completely neutered in the form of a text-only boredom-athon" :lol:
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Also, another game is Real Adventures Of Pacman. The game that all of you wanted! A Text Adventure Version of Pacman!
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4 ... _of_Pacman
(Crap) Intro of Real Adventures Of Pacman (In powerpoint/video ) :
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(this was made when I was testing Canva)

Walktrough - The Real Adventures or Dr Robbie PSSST v03 - ZX Spectrum - CSSCGC Entry :
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This is fantastic. I knew it was going to be Manic Miner even before seeing the video. :lol:
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