Interactive Fiction

Another type of game that occupied way too much of my time back when I had the Trs-80 were Infocom games. These were what has become known as interactive fiction, back then they were adventure games (text adventures). We had a number of them on-line when Eskimo North was a single-line BBS.

Now they and hundreds more are online at a site called Ifiction.org. The implementation is really cool in that they used PHP so that this will work with any browser because the browser only sees standard HTML.

What's more, they encoded the game state in the URL as you play, so all you have to do is bookmark the site and the spot in the game where you want to stop and then go back to the bookmark. How cool is that?

When you go there click on "Games", and then click on "Infocom" if you want to play the old Infocom games like Zork.