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Old 06-09-2010, 02:16 PM
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Anyone remember this DOS game?

I think it was called "Nightmare" or something like that---- It was a command prompt game, where it would ask "you enter a dark room and find a match, a candle, and a door. Which one do you choose?" and it would go on and on like this until you made the wrong choice, then it was Game Over!

For some reason, I cannot find it at all. Used to play it on Windows 95 back around 1997. IIRC I downloaded it free from the net.

It would be totally awesome to play it again.
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Old 06-09-2010, 10:14 PM
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That's Zork or 'Alone in the Dark' I think.
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Old 06-10-2010, 10:59 PM
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Hey Bandersen, thanks for the reply but the one I'm thinking of wasn't a graphic-based game at all...it was all commandprompt...
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Oops I though Alone... was command prompt Zork certainly is. It was made by Infocom - famous for a bunch of command prompt adventure games.
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There was a 1975-76 computer game called Adventure or "Colssal Cave Adventure". It was written in Fortran for DEC PDP and other computers and ported to IBM PC and Atari at a later date. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
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I think I remember that!
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That's Zork or 'Alone in the Dark' I think.
Hi bandersen.
I don't think it's Alone in the Dark. I played that game when it first came out. Played it on Windows 3.11. God Help Me I learned to Save very Often with that Windows Version.Lol. I still Have the Game By The way.
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My sister used to play a text-based game on my dad's TRS-80, called Xenos (http://www.figmentfly.com/xenos/). That's probably not it, but I figured I racked my brain for 10 minutes trying to remember that title, so I'm posting it, dagnabbit...
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Back in Hong Kong.....I remember going to a computer lab with friends, and we would play something called "Hobbit" on the Hewlett Packard terminals. Was VERY MUCH like this, but in like 1977.

We also learned to load up little rolls of white paper tape with like eight or nine rows of holes, and this REALLY LARGE machine would play MUSIC.....in little beeps, and we thought this was the COOLEST thing in the world!!

About a year or so after that, I got my Commodore PET, and THAT is where the "PET" part of my handle started. I was "ComPet" on Hutchvision's IRC when I got a modem for my Coleco ADAM. After that....my friends have always called me "whatever-Pet"...all the way up to now. "AiboPet" is from when I worked with Sony here in Rancho Bernardo on a scrappy little RISC based robotics project later known as "AIBO" (You've no doubt seen an AIBO robotic dog somewhere or other until 2006 when all things robot were killed at Sony).

I always remember that game Hobbit....and the HOURS we would sit there playing this, and it was just green or amber text on a "dumb terminal".
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Hi:

There was another text game similar to what you are describing that a bunch of my coworkers (electrical engineers) played on DEC terminals back in the 1980's. I believe it was called "Rouge". Does that ring any bells?

It looked sort of intriguing, but I was determined to stay away from computers in them days. Building test gear in aluminum boxes was just fine, thanks!!!

Now I work in TCP/IP networking. (Sigh).
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Hi:

There was another text game similar to what you are describing that a bunch of my coworkers (electrical engineers) played on DEC terminals back in the 1980's. I believe it was called "Rouge". Does that ring any bells?

It looked sort of intriguing, but I was determined to stay away from computers in them days. Building test gear in aluminum boxes was just fine, thanks!!!

Now I work in TCP/IP networking. (Sigh).
We used to have a Rogue-like game called "Moria" too.
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