Text Based Games... anyone here play them?

hey all, i recently started playing a text based rpg game and have found it really quite enjoyable and very addictive. so i was wondering, does anyone else here play them. and if so, which ones. the one i am currently playing is achaea, but if there are other good ones out there i would love to check them out.

oct ~:cheers:

I have some old adventure games by scott adams that can be downloaded from his webiste, they are all classics.

The H2G2 text game is online on the BBC....search for it at
www.bbc.co.uk

I used to play sphynx adventures on the amiga.
or was it acorn?
It was really fun but unfortunatly its really old, And you just cant find it any more

go north,

You see a clearing to the west is a path
In front of you is an angry troll,
there is a path to the south
to the east is a forest.

Hit troll.

You hit the angry troll.
He is not happy and attacks you,
GAME OVER.

P.s
It also had like 2 colour images,
Mostly blue and gray

http://www.play.net/dr/

Those get addictive because it makes you want to find out what different things you can do. I stopped playing them years ago for that reason.

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Originally Posted by Shambles

I used to play sphynx adventures on the amiga.
or was it acorn?
It was really fun but unfortunatly its really old, And you just cant find it any more

go north,

You see a clearing to the west is a path
In front of you is an angry troll,
there is a path to the south
to the east is a forest.

Hit troll.

You hit the angry troll.
He is not happy and attacks you,
GAME OVER.

P.s
It also had like 2 colour images,
Mostly blue and gray

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lol, i had one like that on an old BBC microcomputer. Dont think mine had any colour in it

see the MudConnector (if you don't already know it), it lists a few thousand muds.
Used to play big time, played almost daily for 3 years. Since it kinda interfered with school, and I couldn't convince parents and such that I'd be better off without school, I had to stop playing ;)

They're absolutely great, from all points of view. Imho, there's way more interaction between people than in any other graphic game I've seen or heard of (GW, WOW, D2, etc). Are they addictive ? You bet your bubbly butt they are ! Would I still be playing if I had the time ? Hell yeah ! :charge:

I play D&D and though it is not a computer game it is still very old-school. Unfortunately I was not around when many text-based games were out. The first game I played was quite old when I played it, Dungeon Master on the Apple IIGS. Great game.

I used to play text-based adventures quite a bit back in the C64/Amiga days. I still occasionally play some ASCII roguelike RPGs (ADOM, Angband) - not exactly text-driven, but the graphics is text-based, so I guess those could count as well.