Post

🧵 A chance comment in a post has led me down a rabbit warren of Interactive Fiction memories, floppy diskettes, and apps on modern devices. So this is going to be an ongoing thread about text adventure games, such as these “Lost Treasures of Infocom”. 🎮 #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

You have joined an elite fraternity!