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I LOVE the Infocom text games!!!! Here is my collection.

👨‍💻 Here’s Dan Amrich’s original post that set me off. We’ll be seeing some of the contents of that thread in this one a bit later, but I wanted to acknowledge where all of this spawned from. I’ve specifically not tagged because of waffle notifications! 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #TextAdventures ⌨️ #Infocom 🗺️

🗺️ Text adventure games, or interactive fiction if you like, were an integral part of my childhood. I started out with the likes of Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls and Infocom. I’ve still got some folders full of maps that I drew out ✏️ e.g “Hollywood Hijinx”. 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #TextAdventures ⌨️ #Infocom 🗺️

🚀 I mentioned elsewhere that I had fond memories of the “Gateway” text (and graphics) adventure game. Well, I found my old map in this notebook of adventure game maps. 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #TextAdventures ⌨️ #Infocom 🗺️

I grew up playing those games. <3 I still have, in a box somewhere, my late dad's notes on graph paper as we mapped the town in Wishbringer and the overall setting of Enchanter together.

I’ve been digging out my old notes as I’m looking forward to spending warm evenings sat outside at the tackling these games again 🤗 I found a few old maps in my 🧵👆 I don’t remember much, if anything, of Wishbringer and Enchanter. But I have been wondering where to start 👇 and these are candidates 🤓

Enchanter was the start of a trilogy, the second was, I believe, Sorcerer, and the final one was Spellbreaker, which was very difficult, and had sort of a depressing ending for me, when I was 12-13 or so. LOL. Wishbringer was a gentle introduction, and was the first time I was eaten by a grue. :D