Play Infocom adventures via IM
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:03 am
Now, why didn't I <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101, ... tml">think of this?</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> It's a natural, though, and just reeks of nostalgia for those of us who remember things like:<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> West of House.<br> Your are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front<br> door.<br> There is a small mailbox here.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->or<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can't.<br>It is pitch black.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->or<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i></i>