Are the rest
of us supposed to have a clue about this?
http://www.getlamp.com - Before the first person shooter, there was the
second person thinker. :)
If this habit of giving a URL as an asnwer with no explanation continues,
I am going to start answering questions with things like 'third page of
the 7th notebook on the top shelf in my workshop'...
But anyway, I now see it's a documentary about the history of text
adventure games. Why couldn't somebody seay that?
There is one thing that really grated on me when I looked at the site.
And that is the lamp shown on the homepage, which is what we sould call a
'huricane lamp' and which burns parafin (kerosene). IIRC, in both Zork
and Colossal Cave, the lamp is battery-powered, in fact in the latter I
rememebr purchasing spare batties from a vending machine in one of the
mazes. And in both games you could turn the lamp on without needing
matches (which were one of the objects in at least one version of Zork),
useful, since you'ed turn it off when you could to save it (it only
lasted for a certain number of turns IIRC).
'A hollow voice says "Cretin"' :-)
-tnny
