Type-in games - an IFDB Poll

I can only guess that I was not the only one spending hours upon hours typing in those BASIC listings from magazines and books back in the 80s. And unavoidably learning the art of programming in the process. Not to mention gleaning several of the game's secrets from the game messages. And debugging, both my own mistakes and the original programmer's bad code.

And while most of those games were pretty lame, there were a few good ones. Or at least original. Or at least fascinating. Or at least you had to play them because of all those hours spent on typing them.

So what were some of your favourites?

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	Slottet i Zydor, by Joakim Karlsson 1 vote "Large and messy!" [+]"Large and messy!: Published in VIC Rapport for the C64, this Swedish game was fairly large (considering the memory limitations). Poorly coded, but with many good ideas and some nice puzzles." () --Fredrik... Vote for this game

	The High Mountains, by Paul Braithwaite 1 vote "Almost 30 independent NPCs!" [+]"Almost 30 independent NPCs!: Published in Personal Computer News, this Spectrum game was extremely simple in terms of parser and puzzles. But WOW, what an impressive array of NPCs, any of which could be played by up to four players, choosing either good or bad characters with different objectives." () --Fredrik... Vote for this game

	Island of Secrets, by Jenny Tyler and Les Howarth 1 vote "After I typed..." [+]"After I typed this in... it didn't work. Years later I got a copy someone else typed in!" --Wade Clarke... Vote for this game

	Survival, by E. H. Wilson 1 vote "Survival of the fittest!" [+]"Survival of the fittest!: Published in Personal Computer News for C64, this was a very linear and not very original problem-solving game, but extremely neatly coded. The only bugs were the ones I caused myself." () --Fredrik... Vote for this game

	Haunted House, by Jenny Tyler and Les Howarth 1 vote "A super-basic..." [+]"A super-basic treasure hunt, except there was one room where you could get stuck and basically die without being able to die or quit." () --Wade Clarke... Vote for this game

	The Mystery of Silver Mountain, by Chris Oxlade and Judy Tatchell 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Wade Clarke... Vote for this game

Is there another game that you think should be on this list? Just fill in the title of a game you'd like to vote for.

Poll created on January 4, 2011