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Xanadu Adventure (1982) — shop till you drop
Xanadu Adventure is a text adventure game that was written for the BBC Micro by Paul Shave in 1982. Typically for the time, Shave was strongly influenced by Crowther and Woods’s Colossal Cave, and Xanadu therefore featured the requisite stream, … Continue reading
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Escape From Solaris (1984) by Graham Nelson
Previously I wrote about The Discovery, which is the first of two works of interactive fiction (known together as Galaxy’s Edge) that were written for the 8-bit BBC Micro in 1984 by Graham Nelson. The Discovery is, more or less, a conventional … Continue reading
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Skill, Stamina and Luck
In February 2016, the BBC broadcast a radio documentary about interactive fiction called Skill, Stamina and Luck. It focused largely on gamebooks like Fighting Fantasy, Choose Your Own Adventure, and some interesting historical examples — but it also took in parser … Continue reading
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Galaxy’s Edge (1984) by Graham Nelson
Galaxy’s Edge (1984) – an early text adventure game by interactive-fiction legend Graham Nelson Continue reading
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The Secret of Arendarvon Castle (1985) — bytecode avant la lettre
[Play Arendarvon Castle online] [backup] In previous posts, I wrote about Wander (1974), the interactive fiction creation tool for mainframe Unix systems. But my speciality (I use the word laughably) is text adventure games for the BBC Micro, the legendary … Continue reading
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L — A Mathemagical Adventure (1984)
A video playthrough of the classic 1980s educational mathematics game L — A Mathemagical Adventure by the UK Association of Teachers of Mathematics, for the 8-bit BBC Micro computer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMeuxsvk3k&list=PLy5HwFxc67UFERGEqbKU-Ky74QwEtuLsm
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