Comments on: There is a Shiny Brass Lamp nearby

By: yelahneb

yelahneb — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:17:36 +0000

This is fantastic news! I bought the BBS doc for my dad for father’s day; he, my brother and i had such a time watching it, delighted that this amazing epoch of the information age we happily lived through had finally gotten a fair treatment.

Now this; rapture! My first text adventure game was Scott Adams’ “Adventureland”, in the form of a fat old cartridge for the Vic20. After that, it was various games from Aardvark Software; ‘Mars’, ‘Pyramid’ and ‘Derelict’, all on tape cassette. ‘Zork’ was the one that doomed me as a geek; I played (and talked about) each one incessantly, much to the derision of my peers. And so on…

Anyway. Great idea, awesome title, can’t wait to pre-order it!

>exit room

By: Scarface

Scarface — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:08:28 +0000

The newsgroups are a poor place to look for text adventure info. They will just spout about IF, not text adventure. The MUDs are the place to go, they are the real preservation of the text adventure “lamp”, so to speak.

By: chipple.net

chipple.net — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:08:48 +0000

Get Lamp

Jason Scott is at it again! The director of the excellent BBS Documentary has announced his next project, “Get Lamp”,…

By: Steve Brown

Steve Brown — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:02:41 +0000

Hi Jason,

If you’d like any input on the preservation of text adventures, specifically for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, drop me a line. I’m in the middle of producing an article on the subject for Adventure Probe magazine.

If you could also help me track down some adventures as yet un-preserved, I’d appreciate it.

Cheers, Steve
http://tzxvault.retrogames.com
ZX Spectrum Tape Preservation

By: Cary Groneveldt

Cary Groneveldt — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:06:54 +0000

Man ….

First BBSes now *this !!!!

Does Jason know what cool buttons ta push or *what ?!? lol

I’m SO lookin’ forward ta this ….

By: Diane Duane

Diane Duane — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:03:32 +0000

Dear Jason,

I did this once upon a time.

“Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative” was the first “sanctioned” Trek text adventure.

Check with me for details.

Best! — Diane

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:24:36 +0000

If I were you, I’d chat with some folks on ifmud –
http://ifmud.port4000.com:4001/

That, and the rec.arts.interactive-fiction and rec.games.interactive-fiction newsgroups are the center of the contemporary IF community.

Also, check out Nick Montfort’s book “Twisty Little Passages” from MIT press for good resources.

By: Name Changes Daily

Name Changes Daily — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:30:00 +0000

Text Adventure Documentary Coming

This is teh aw3sum. Jason Scott, who made the most excellent BBS Documentary,
has decided to make a text adventure documentary now. It, eagerly, await I.

By: Michel Vuijlsteke

Michel Vuijlsteke — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:08:43 +0000

Looking forward to finally seeing Steve Meretzky

By: A Reader

A Reader — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:58:05 +0000

Also, I posted it on Boingboing. Not Jason.