Light the lamp with what?

[Leslie]

Avery was asking me tonight about what games and websites we used on the internet when we were in school.



After informing him that there was no internet then, Paul and I made him listen to us reminisce about the games we did have. That'll learn him.

Anyway, besides the text-based SimCity I remember, the one I remember with the most nostalgia but the least details was a text-based adventure game. You walked around doing "stuff" and telling the computer where to go and what to do. I think there were dragons and stuff. It would ask "light the lamp with what?" and "use what to pick it up", till you got mad and swore at it, after which it would say "I don't know how to ***" or cite you for your language.

Anyone know what it was called? I'd love to play it again.

 

[Nixy]

I used to type in the blue screen on my commodore 64, I thought that was pretty cool, haha.

 

[Leslie]

"Programming" the piano program on the Vic20 was pretty cool.

hell

10 Print "hahahahahahahahahahahahaha'
20 GOTO 10
run

was pretty cool.

 

[unclehobart]

That almost sounds like Wizardry: http://www.lava.net/~jh/wizardry/wizardry.html

 

[Leslie]

That is way similar, but I am pretty sure it's not it. It's too advanced! lol.

I don't remember any graphics at all. Just text.

 

[tonksy]

Les...I believe I remember that one. Were the graphics really choppy and pixelated?

 

[paul_valaru]

no graphics, balck screen white text

 

[paul_valaru]

I found it....

WEST OF HOUSE
you are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a mailbox there.

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

 

[Leslie]

lol can it be emulated?

It's called West of House?

 

[paul_valaru]

lol can it be emulated?

It's called West of House?

nope that was the opening line of the game

which was called zork

 

[tonksy]

Mine was a pixelated green and white graphic game and there were places you could go....I remember something about not letting the goats out of the pen and a key up a tree.

 

[Dave]

That almost sounds like Wizardry: http://www.lava.net/~jh/wizardry/wizardry.html

i'll have to dig that out. i know i have the box set around here somewhere.

 

[Leslie]

I'm sure mine was entirely text. I guess we weren't able to get all them high tech graphics up here back then.

 

[spike]

till you got mad and swore at it, after which it would say "I don't know how to ***" or cite you for your language.

I played Zork and yes I swore at it.

There's a pretty funny simulation here...
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001561.html

You can download the game

Easier yet, just play the Flash versions.

 

[Leslie]

oooooooooh! Thanks! I bookmarked that one for later!

 

[FluerVanderloo]

I feel so young. Grew up on Oregon Trail on the old Macs.

 

[Inkara1]

You ARE young... I didn't even have access to a mac until the 7th grade... before then it was the Apple IIe and the IIgs.

 

[woodman19_99]

I remember playing Tetris on an old B&W Mac. Can't remember the model number, but it was one box, including the monitor... had a handle on the top to for easy transportation... I wonder if it is still up in the attic...