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A great way to fit a lot of game in a small space, June 5, 2017This was, I believe, the first commercial text adventure. Certainly the first successful one; although Adventure and Dungeon were much more descriptive, this game fit on everyone's systems.
Gargoyle can play this game if you change .dat files to .saga. Scott Adams' website has an interpreter for these games as of 2017.
This game is ultra-minimalistic, with room descriptions often empty or as short as possible. The parser takes only two words at a time; only the first three letters of each word are read.
The game is actually quite fun, especially if you're willing to spend a long time playing around with it. It achieves the 'long time'-ness by having several situations that lock you out of victory without you realizing it, and by requiring a lot of combinations of items.
Before I played it, I thought it was an Adventure rip off, but they are very, very dissimilar. It's like the way that Antz and A Bug's Life are similar, or Monster's Inc and Shrek. They are vaguely similar, but not really.
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4 people found the following review helpful:
The one that got me started., April 15, 2017I can remember when I first sat behind my C64, I was young and hooked on this game. Though it hasn't aged that well I can still sit down and play this for hours at end. If you haven't played this piece of history I say you should. It's a nice look back to what the past was like.
- Pegbiter (Malmö, Sweden), January 10, 2017
- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), June 6, 2015
- Thrax, March 25, 2015
- Wade Clarke (Sydney, Australia), January 19, 2015
- Iakampa (Poland), December 29, 2014
- jgerrie (Cape Breton Island, Canada), April 6, 2014
- Deychrome, February 16, 2014
- Gregzilla, January 26, 2014
- Reptile_Overlord, January 24, 2014
- Simon Deimel (Germany), December 18, 2013
- Egas, September 2, 2013
- kala (Finland), February 28, 2013
- GDL (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), June 4, 2011
- Felix Pleșoianu (Bucharest, Romania), March 19, 2011
- Josuef55, March 6, 2011
- artao (SW Wisconsin), February 2, 2011
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