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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A database of adventures for 8-bit computers.
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.
A documentary about adventures in text. Includes news, interviews, trailers, and a page that allows to order the DVD set.
Unmoderated discussion group. Posting about interactive fiction and making interactive fiction games.
Unmoderated discussion group. Posts are not all on topic.
Humorous text adventure by Crummycom.
Reviews of the competition games by the author of Spider and Web, A Change in the Weather, So Far, and other games.
A MUD for text adventure enthusiasts.
Author of the Small Things trilogy of novels, among other books. Collection of game reviews written for Computer Currents magazine, and selected links to IF resources.
Originally created in 1996 at the university of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Serbia.
The page for classic text adventure aficionados. Covers Scott Adams, Brian Howarth, Infocom, Level 9, and Magnetic Scrolls.
A collection of articles about interactive fiction.
SPAG, an e-zine devoted primarily to reviews of text adventure games (interactive fiction).
Listing text adventure games.
Collection of text adventures that can be played online in a web browser.
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.
Text adventures by Andrew Plotkin.
A database of adventures for 8-bit computers.
A collection of articles about interactive fiction.
SPAG, an e-zine devoted primarily to reviews of text adventure games (interactive fiction).
Text adventures by Andrew Plotkin.
Reviews of the competition games by the author of Spider and Web, A Change in the Weather, So Far, and other games.
Originally created in 1996 at the university of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Serbia.
Unmoderated discussion group. Posting about interactive fiction and making interactive fiction games.
Unmoderated discussion group. Posts are not all on topic.
Author of the Small Things trilogy of novels, among other books. Collection of game reviews written for Computer Currents magazine, and selected links to IF resources.
Listing text adventure games.
A documentary about adventures in text. Includes news, interviews, trailers, and a page that allows to order the DVD set.
The page for classic text adventure aficionados. Covers Scott Adams, Brian Howarth, Infocom, Level 9, and Magnetic Scrolls.
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.
Collection of text adventures that can be played online in a web browser.
Humorous text adventure by Crummycom.
A MUD for text adventure enthusiasts.
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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