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Good times.
We get older every year. Thanks for the reminder!
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I waited for that one half the day yesterday. Thanks for the much needed laugh!
Ah, memories of playing a local MUD back in the 80s on a 1200 baud modem (of course, I was in elementary school then, and I named my character "Cut" because he used a dagger... sadly, my character names haven't got much better since).
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You see a sign on the terminal that reads coming soon!
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Nice touch. 
Tech support IRL, CLR/DRU/MED/WHM/PRI/DEF. Hmm, I sense a pattern...
S 80% E 80% A 40% K 0%
A few of my alts
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AHAHAHAAHAH
/recalls Zork I
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*Grunts* I remember playing Zork I on my uncle's TRS-80, when Zork was still being distributed by Personal Software. I was 6 or 7, so I never really got very far with it. It wasn't until my family got a TI99/4A a few years later (1983) that I got really into the adventure games.
Most of those were the Scott Adams series, which had a very different sort of charm than the Infocom games. By the time we were gaming heavily with the TI99/4A, it had been discontinued, which made finding a lot of games much more difficult.
When we finally got a PCjr (another computer that was discontinued shortly after we got it), the big game was the IBM port of Wizardry (the super-bishop ID 9 cheat code was disabled in the port, so it was like "hardcore" Wizardry). When I wasn't playing that, I was running through Witness and Zork on the TI99/4A. I still have fond memories of Suspended and all those little adorable little robots.
We eventually got a copy of the Infocom "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". That ate up lots of my time. The big problem I had though, was a turn based bug. If you didn't get everything done before turn 500 or 1000 or something like that, you couldn't get the door to Marvin's room to open. There were a lot of random elements to the game, so I never actually finished it until many years later (1992).
Closest I came to a multi-user mud before 1993 were turn based BBSes. One was a turn based PvP arena gladitorial set up. As I recall, you had to duke it out for two whole day's worth of turns to kill somebody at full strength, so adding in movement into their square, it would take 3 days to kill them. Of course, if they logged in after your turn, they could disengage and you'd have to chase them down. Didn't have anything like health potions, so lost HPs were lost. I remember reading on the message boards about one battle taking over a month because two people kept running around in circles. The sysop finally rebooted the game and declared a tie.
And people wonder I'm so darn patient when I'm playing MMOs...
Great post.
This is why I hated Zork.
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Who named the streets?
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
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The streets, Emmert Street and Dakan Ave., were named for two of the original Devs for the game.
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Great post.
This is why I hated Zork.
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Who says that the ol' text-based games were any easier than today's games? 
Oh god, MUDs. The parsing alone!
One a Drugs please. Remembering we played games like that gave me a headache.
xyzzy
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What the heck do you need an 80386 processor for to do dial-in? I was running, not dialing into but running, stuff like this off of an 8 MHz 8086 over 2400 baud Hayes-compatible modems back in 1985. And I felt extravagant, back then, for having upgraded from the 4.77 MHz 8088 to the 8 MHz 8086. There was no point in upgrading to a '386 unless you were going to run a GUI, and there weren't any Intel-based GUIs worth running until '89.
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I played zork on the university of texas mainframe in 81 lol.
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Heh, I was born in 87.
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When you were born,I was carrying an M16.
Lots of 50's yada yada. still finding fun things to do.
Cthulhu loves you, better start running
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You are in a maze of twisty little passages
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Wow, that reminds me of a game I used to play when I was just a little girl. I forget the name of it. I just remember you started in this park and couldn't walk on the grass (but had to cross it). I finally figured out that you had to get in a baby carriage (that you found), open an umbrella (that you stole), and the wind would carry you across the grass.
Geez, what *was that called? Kinda miss the games when you had to actually think and figure something out to move yourself along.
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Trinity, by Infocom. Very dark game, that. One of my personal favorite stories about the nuclear threat.
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The exact opposite game would be Infocom's versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
>Feed cheese sandwich to dog
Go Team Venture!
heh... that is funny. Reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide.
So... is this a hint at what may befall the MMO industry should Worlds.com win? 
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Always here, there, and there again.
Great post Positron; made me smile 
I would love to have street signs in Paragon. It would have been even more handy back when the stores were unmarked on the map.
I know those were Dev names, but that makes me wonder, do you guys have the streets named? That would be pretty cool.
"I play characters. I have to have a very strong visual appearance, backstory, name, etc. to get involved with a character, otherwise I simply won't play it very long. I'm not an RPer by any stretch of the imagination, but character concept is very important for me."- Back Alley Brawler
I couldn't agree more.
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Great post.
This is why I hated Zork.
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Of course, neither Zork nor its Infocom successors were that pathological about their command parsing. At the time, I remember thinking it was pretty impressive. (At the time, it probably wasn't bad.)
I remember being very impressed sometimes at what the authors though of that you might do. In one of the installements in the Enchanter series (which I always considered an extension of the Zork line), there was a room with a wall that was described as "noisome". If you said "listen to wall" it would reply "The wall is noisome, not noisy!"
Edit: By the way, I really enjoyed the screenshots. They brought back a lot of nostalgia, and I thought the frustration of the player expressed in all-caps commands was awesome.
Edit2: Look what some googling for Zork turned up. This went live yesterday, 4/1.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
I remember when I was a kid that my parents had a TI Texas Instruments and I played a pirate game called Adventure but never got very far in the game before I gave up never could find a way out of the old abandoned house on the deserted island that was being guarded by a sleeping pirate. Good times!
Funny, I have a toon named Cpt. Liberty. Not quite the same though, and variations on the name are pretty common.
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hilarious!!!
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You mean like this?
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hilarious!!!
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*grumbles something about a dead end*
I am wondering, and maybe Positron can verify this...
The CoH Golden Age looks to be loot based and equipment driven.
Is this the case?
How many levels are there in CoH:GA?
Has the cap been raised?
Can we have buttcapes?
I am a solo'er normally...it seems like that fella Horatio was having a lot of problems solo...so...is it really that group centric?
I eagerly await your responses. And I would appreciate it those answers were given through interpretive dancing please.
TYVM in advance.
Feihung
I SMELL A WUMPUS!
I'm old and owned a TRS-80. All I'm saying.
Thank you, City of Heroes, for giving me a superhero social network combined with amazingly smooth game play. Petitions signed with realistic expectations.
I remember trying to play two of these games. I think that I kept drowning the Fantastic Four or got them stuck in a pit (or something like it) at the beginning of the game and NEVER got any further 
Same with the Hobbit. I got as far as a cave on the mountain before the blood on the monitor from me banging my head against it made it impossible to go any further
Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy!!!
This post made my day. I graduated HS in 1982. So I do remember those days. Good times.
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Kinda miss the games when you had to actually think and figure something out to move yourself along.
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Yeah, I quit my first attempt at one of those games. It went something like this:
Your plane lands and taxis up to the airport. The door opens and the staircase wheels up to it.
>LEAVE PLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
>LEAVE PLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
>EXIT PLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
>GO OUT OF PLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
>LEAVE AIRPLANE
I don't understand what you mean.
... I'm kind of amazed that I lasted 15 minutes with the thing. I never STARTED the adventure.
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So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.