Carnival of Gamers II

The second Carnival of Gamers has set up shop, with this one being themed around a text adventure. Once again, bloggers provide commentary on the games of the day. From the article: "> USE TAPE IN VCR The tape clicks for a few minutes as the machine finds the timecoding, then begins playing Foton's Confessions of a Dangerous Guide, apparently taped from AFK Gamer."

Ahh...nolstagia...

[TripMaster Monkey]

with this one being themed around a text adventure.

>kill grue

-You can't kill the lurking grue!

>talk grue

-Talking to yourself is said to be a sign of impending mental collapse.

>go cave

You venure into the cave. It is very dark. The grue eats you. You are dead.

Play again? (Y/N)

^_^

Re: GIVE [me] BREAK

[LandownEyes]

Don't think we're gonna find that here!

Re: GIVE [me] BREAK

[RexxFiend]

Seriously, you need to try some of the newer text adventures which are being written today. There is some fastastic writing in text adventures these days.
I appreciate that the term "interactive fiction" maybe sounds like an attempt to make the genre more "worthy" (graphic novel?) but in some cases I think it is justified.

try spider and web [wurb.com] or The Moonlit Tower [wurb.com]. The second one is more of an example of what I'm talking about, although the first one is a fantastic example of the flexibility of interactive fic

USE TAPE IN VCR?

[Pluvius]

What the hell kind of text adventure allows the USE verb?

Rob