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Text-based games!(?) (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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Even though we got a computer in the mid to late 90's, a shitty DOS-box that no-one kind of really knew how to do anything with, I was infinitely interested in anything to do with it. I remember playing Guerrilla Wars and some dungeon crawlers on it and such, but I feel like I almost entirely missed out on text-based games. I vaguely remember playing two, but I guess I was just excited about computer graphics or something that I didn't really care for them or the ones I tried just sucked.

I'm sure there's people here that have more experience with them so I ask you to bring forth all your favorite text-based adventures, regardless of genre. What classics should I go for?

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[–] _bug0ut 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they all definitely seem quite polished. Sometimes I get the itch to play a MUD, find one or return to one I've played before, and get hooked for a few months. Other times, I'm done after a few days... they'll always be an option for me though. IRE games are just fine for my purposes in that regard.