Yep, it sounds like Wishbringer, which was the first ever text adventure game I played (it was on my gran's computer for some reason, which had only Snake and this, and I played it loads and never got further than getting back from the shop and being constantly arrested).
― emil.y, Friday, 15 August 2008 08:17 (fifteen years ago) link
that's totally it! wishbringer. i would always get to the shoppe, get out, fog sets in and the thing won't let me go in any direction at all. so i gave it up after awhile. this from wickipedia made me laugh:
Feelies
Included in the Wishbringer package are several items, which Infocom called feelies: A book, The Legend of Wishbringer, that explains how the magic stone came to be (in the Solid Gold release, an in-game object included in the player's starting inventory instead of the packaging) The envelope and letter to be delivered to Ye Olde Magick Shoppe A "postal zone map" of Festeron A plastic glow-in-the-dark replica of the stone
wah?! it's not the real magickal stone?!
― andrew m., Friday, 15 August 2008 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
what was the one where you enter a saloon and have to pee. enter ladies or gents...
then you step on a black spot and are whisked somewhere else then you look around and see things and gather them as you go along. It had a weird name like "ladies from mars" or something.
― Wiggy Woo, Friday, 15 August 2008 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Lesbian Goddesses of Phobos.
― Casuistry, Friday, 15 August 2008 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Leather! Leather Goddesses of Phobos. My bad.
yes! that was it! I killed hours playing that one.
― Wiggy Woo, Friday, 15 August 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
And depending on which bathroom you entered the game referred to you as a man or a woman, right?
― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 15 August 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Yep.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 August 2008 23:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/LGOP_box_art.jpg
The game featured no copy prevention as such, but like many Infocom games, it included puzzles that were nearly impossible to solve without hints from the accompanying documentation (the so-called feelies). Leather Goddesses included the following feelies, one of which was quite uncommon among Infocom's games: A small scratch and sniff card which bore seven numbered areas (at certain points in the game, the player would be instructed to scratch a certain number and then whiff the resulting odor. Given the possibilities for a game featuring a "lewd mode", the scents were relatively innocuous, such as pizza and chocolate.) The Adventures of Lane Mastodon, a 3-D comic book containing vital hints to the game 3-D glasses for the Lane Mastodon comic book A double-sided map of the catacombs
This creative take on copy protection earned Leather Goddesses a SPA Excellence in Software Award for Best Software Packaging in 1987.
― kingfish, Saturday, 16 August 2008 05:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.wurb.com/if/game/2186
"Slouching Towards Bedlam"
Neat victorian steampunk story so far, comes bundled with Frotz.
― kingfish, Saturday, 16 August 2008 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Slouching is, alongside Galatea and AMFV, my favorite IF game ever.
― Mordy, Saturday, 16 August 2008 06:39 (fifteen years ago) link
this is neat: http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/
― kingfish, Saturday, 16 August 2008 06:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Sloughing is one of the classics. Many classics come bundled with Frotz, actually.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 16 August 2008 08:47 (fifteen years ago) link
ON IPHONE
Had a hunch I would fine something with this, and whaddayaknow:
There are only three Doctor Who Interactive Fiction Text adventure games I know of so far...
with links to all three.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 07:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Article here: The rebirth of grue
talking about the resurgence of the genre.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 07:24 (fifteen years ago) link
browser fun: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Unfocom
― kingfish, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 07:27 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.squidi.net/comic/if/view.php?ep=1&id=1
― kingfish, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Since the backspace key had yet to be invented, the name stuck.[
erm, what
― Ste, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 08:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone know where I can get to play Curses ?
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ah, may have found it http://www.wurb.com/if/game/55
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 11:52 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone know of any text adventures set in a futuristic kind of setting, like cyber punk of similar?
old or new
― go O and O (Ste), Saturday, 19 June 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.wurb.com/if/genre/4
Start on that page and knock yrself out, my man
― Yahia Trick Yahia (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 June 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
woah, cool. thanks
― go O and O (Ste), Saturday, 19 June 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Quintin Stone's Scavenger is like a post-apocolypse (Fallout-style) themed IF. Not quite Cyberpunk, but it was fun IIRC.
― Mordy, Saturday, 19 June 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
A Mind Forever Voyaging is the definitive cyberpunk IF classic.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 19 June 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I was a beta-tester for that! (Scavenger not AMFV obv) - I didn't like it that much :(
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 19 June 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
https://texturewriter.com/
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 05:30 (seven years ago) link
Oh, interesting. A platform in the space between Inform and Twine could really work. (Also is that one of ours in the beta testing list??)
For other text adventure peeps, Sub-Q Magazine is a pretty good, pretty new publisher of IF works, though they do all seem to be disappointingly short.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 11:40 (seven years ago) link
Having played a few of the example games from Texture, I'm not that impressed. It's way more on the Twine side, with a bit of Quest thrown in. Not completely closing my mind to it, but would much rather play a proper parser game.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
It feels like a gimmicky Twine at the moment but new media are welcome once they're debugged
― Guangchang, thank you man (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link