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The text adventure genre started by Crowther and Woods' Colossal Cave adventure in 1972. "Text Adventures" is often used interchangeably with "Interactive Fiction".Playing text adventures involves typing plain English and reading textual responses, although it is not uncommon to find graphics inserted with the text, or commands given by the mouse.The genre has blossomed to include a huge variety of games: difficult puzzles or no puzzles; inspired, evocative, funny, or terse writing; and also a few arcade games. More games are available every week, and there is an Interaction Fiction Competition every year. This category includes illustrated text adventures with a command line interface.
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- Magic_Castle
- Mapper,_The
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- Masquerade
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- Mind_Forever_Voyaging,_A
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- One_of_Our_Wombats_Is_Missing
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News:
| Guess the Verb - Humorous text adventure by Crummycom.
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| | Interactive Fiction - Joe DeRouen's Home Page - Collection of game reviews he wrote for Computer Currents magazine, and selected links to IF resources.
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| | El Page del Adam - Site contains some general information about text adventure games, and games that can be downloaded or play the Java version of the game online.
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| | >verbose - Paul O'Brian's Interactive Fiction page, featuring the games and reviews he's written, information about the webzine he edits, and lots of nifty IF stuff.
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| | Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe - Lots of classic 1980s computer software for sale/trade, specializing in Infocom text adventures. Monthly collector's column, waiting list, links to other software collectors' pages.
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| | ifMUD: A MUD Forever Voyaging - A MUD for text adventure enthusiasts.
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| | PDD's Adventure Page - The page for classic text adventure afficionados. Covers Scott Adams, Brian Howarth, Infocom, Level 9, and Magnetic Scrolls.
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| | Rising From Time's Ashes: The Best Free Interactive Fiction Of The Century - Michael Feir's collection of what he feels is the best freely available interactive fiction with reviews for each game.
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| | The Official YS Beginners Guide To Adventures - How to play an adventure, how to know which commands to type in, and all those little bits and pieces that'll help you get past the first post.
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| | Interactive Fiction at Suite101.com - A new literary genre that originated in the 1970s and was made popular by computer games. By Mark Silcox.
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| | Interactive Fiction Hall of Shame - Photos of the denizens of ifMUD and r.a.i-f.
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| | The TextFire Hoax - Information about a set of games suddenly posted in the community that had suspicious origins.
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| | Interactive Fiction - IF stuff in general.
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| | Interactive Fiction Review Conspiracy - A place for authors and reviwers to meet.
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| | Annotated Bibliography of Interactive Fiction Scholarship - Ranked and annotated items, covering academic articles, fan or community web sites, influential amateur articles, and references to text adventures in mainstream literature. Focuses on the cultural and literary significance of text adventures.
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| | Interactive Fiction Basement - Information and tutorials.
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| | The IF Beta Site Info Page - Offers a place where testers and authors can meet each other.
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| | IF Literacy - Recommended playing list for interactive fiction, compiled by Emily Short.
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| | 8-bit Adventure World, The - A database of adventures for 8-bit computers.
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| | rec.arts.int-fiction Frequently Asked Questions - General information for people new to interactive fiction.
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| | Interactive Fiction Ratings - Public ratings and comments of Interactive Fiction games.
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| | Prof. Dennis G. Jerz: Interactive Fiction - A collection of articles about interactive fiction.
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| | Interactive Fiction Art Show - Annual competition for games which exclude traditional "game elements" from entries, and also try to lift any plot as much as possible.
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| | Maze of twisty Web pages, all alike. - An online index of the Interactive Fiction FTP archive, a rec.arts.int-fiction archive, and a research library for topics in game design.
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