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In Adventure games (also referred to as interactive fiction), the player enters a game world and the story's progression follows from the player's interaction with that world. Progress toward the goal is usually impeded by intellectual problems to solve using resources within the game world. The term adventure game derives from Crowther and Woods's "Adventure", the computer game that invented the genre. This category includes classic text adventures (like the original Zork trilogy), and graphical adventure games (like Myst). Interactive movies like Dragon's Lair lack the intellectual problem solving of adventure games, but may be listed here for want of a better category. Games in the cinematic adventure genre, such as Tomb Raider, are not necessarily adventure games in the sense used here. Nor are collections of puzzles on a similar theme, like Jewels of the Oracle, though they may be marketed as adventure games because puzzle games appeal to the same audience. The best RPGs (roleplaying games) share the plot-driven character of interactive fiction, though interaction with the game world is often limited to combat and static conversations rather than intellectual problem solving. They are listed under Genres/Roleplaying.
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| Interactive Fiction Page - Outdated collection of links maintained by Scott Neal Reilly
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| | Castle Darkmoon - Adventures and RPG site by The Adventure Workshop, which writes emulators for the Spectrum Adventures and sells them for £5 each. 45 walkthrus and links to 6 shareware RPGs.
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| | The World of Interactive Fiction - A collection of Interactive Fiction resources, including a favorite games list, competition news and reviews, IF humor, and lots of links.
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| | IF-Legends.Org - Hosting service and search engine specialising in interactive fiction.
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| | Preserving Classic Adventures Project (PreCAP) - The project tries to preserve classic adventure games, for all computer systems from the early home computers like the TRS-80 Model I to the 16-bit ones.
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| | Download Interactive Fiction Games - Contains authoring tools, games, program manuals, and frequently asked questions.
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| | Adventure Games Hall of Fame, The - Adventure game spoilers, walkthroughs, tips, hints, solutions, pictures and reviews.
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| | XYZZYnews Issue #7 Article: "Adventure Game Interfaces" - Article by C.E. Forman that compares the various user interfaces used in adventures.
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| | Annual Interactive Fiction Competition, The - The free interactive fiction competition judged by readers of rec.arts.int-fiction.
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| | Brass Lantern - News, articles, and interviews about adventure games, edited by Steven Granade.
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| | How Adventure Games Age - While graphic adventure games tend to look very dated very quickly, text adventures still seem fresh a decade after they were written. By Stephen Granade.
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| | Scurvyliver Entertainment - Offering free, downloadable adventure games.
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| | The Great IF Toaster Contest - Make an interactive fiction game using any development system to create a toaster. The toaster should have a lever on it and a slide or dial to set the darkness to.
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| | Adventureland - A categorized list of adventure games produced over the years, broken down by company. Also lists game systems, Interpreters and emulators.
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| | Adventure Games Home Page - Links to reviews, previews, walkthroughs, patches and saved games.
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| | Interactive Fiction according to Fredrik - A personal site covering IF in general as well as his own games.
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| | Textfire.com - Host of the Interactive Fiction Competition, the IF Book Club, the IF Review Conspiracy, and the IF Beta Site.
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| | The Interactive Fiction Book Club - A way to encourage play and analysis of older, often overlooked works of IF.
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| | Balrog, The - A homage to the Amstrad adventure scene.
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| | Mystery Manor Adventure - Walkthrough, hints, developers, screen shots, forums and general information on a variety of games and their developers.
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| | GameBoomers - Includes PC game walkthroughs, hints and cheats, discussion forums, list of game publishers and official sites, game reviews and previews.
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| | Adventure Game Convention - An annual event for players and creators of adventure games to meet and exchange ideas. Site contains venue and history information. Located in Coventry, United Kingdom.
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| | Stress Reducers Games - Collection of links to freeware, shareware, and online game downloads with a short description for each.
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| | Magnus' Interactive Fiction Page - Links to other interactive fiction sites plus downloads of a few games.
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| | rec.games.int-fiction FAQ - The rec.games.int-fiction FAQ
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| | Cyberpunk games - Site discusses many cyberpunk games (or heavily influence by cyberpunk) including various text and graphic adventure games from 1984 to 2003.
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| | GUEmap - Program for Windows 95/NT for drawing and printing maps of interactive fiction games.
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