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Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz is a text adventure, a sequel to the classic first Zork. Once again, the game is set in the Great Underground Empire, but this time the main goal is to face off against the titular Wizard. Like its predecessor, Zork II plays like any other text adventure: there are no graphics – only … Continue reading “Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz”
Year: 1981
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Browser, CP/M, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, Mainframe, PC Booter, PC-8000, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo, Tatung Einstein
Genre: Adventure
Telengard is an earlier example of a “dungeon crawler” role-playing game–albeit with a top-down view- with either real time movement (DOS version) or turn-based movement and turn based combat. Telengard is also played in real time, which means that monsters can attack even when the player’s character is not moving. The player controls a single adventurer, … Continue reading “Telengard”
Year: 1982
Platforms: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, CP/M, Commodore 64, Commodore PET/CBM, DOS, FM-7, PC-88, PC-98, TRS-80, Windows
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Roguelike
Zork: The Great Underground Empire is a classic text adventure game. The player begins as an “adventurer” standing near a white house in a nice forest, but soon descends into the Great Underground Empire, where most of the game takes place. The player’s quest is to collect the Nineteen Treasures of Zork. As was typical … Continue reading “Zork I: The Great Underground Empire”
Year: 1980
Platforms: Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, CP/M, Commodore 128, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, DOS, Macintosh, Mainframe, PC Booter, PC-8000, PC-88, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo, Tatung Einstein
Genre: Adventure