[misc.handicap] games

Terry.Claus@p0.f5.n119.z1.fidonet.org (Terry Claus) (07/27/90)

Index Number: 9532

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

I am a relitivly new IBM user, but I enjoy it quite abbit more than that 
blasted apple I had.
I am looking for some text games that work on a IBM Xt.
If anyone knows where I might beable to get hold of some public domain 
games through the mail or maybe a magazine sompthing on the order of 
Bauud but for IBM I would surely enjoy the info.
By the way my name is Terry Claus and I live in Orland Ca.
Hope to get to know some of you all better in days to come.
            OpOpTHANKS

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William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson) (04/13/91)

Index Number: 14860

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 TC> I am looking for some more text adventures.  I've tried Beyond
 TC> the Titanic, nova, colosel cave and a few others.  The best one
 TC> I've found however is Enchanted Castle from the Blink Link.

Terry,
     Oh yes, text adventures!  If my download and file request records
tell me anything, it is that blinks still love text adventures!
Obviously, one of the reasons BlinkLink has a good selection of text
adventures is because its sysop used to spend a lot of his time looking
for and playing text adventures!
      About the only text adventure I can highly recommend now, however,
is NOVA.ZIP.  This isn't because I don't think there are other good ones
out there, and heavens knows I probably have many other good ones here
that neither you or I have tried, but Nova was just one of those games
that I spent a lot of enjoyable hours with, and sort of holds fond
memories with me now.
     One thing I do want to mention is that I know longer keep just bios
writing text adventures here, as I did in the past.  There are several
reasons for this, including the fact that they are becoming a rarity,
and even more importantly, they are dealt with so much more effectively
with today's speech programs than they were when I first started
collecting text adventures.  Nova is a bios writer, so very easy to use,
but some of the newer stuff is probably great too, and can be used
fairly easily I suspect even if they do direct screen writes.
      By the way Terry, please don't tell me if you get Nova and
successfully get off the planet!  It would probably shatter my ego
beyond repair!
                                                        Willie

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