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<john...@live.com> wrote in message
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> Back in the day I enjoyed the Zork Nemesis game.  After a decade out
> of the gaming loop, I became interested again and have been trying to
> find something similar sold today.  Any suggestions?
> JDM

Zork Nemesis was a good game, but that was back in the days when there were
a lot more adventure games being released than now. In the last few years
they have not been many. There are still some being released here and there,
for us die-hard adventure players though to keep us going. Have you played
any adventure games since Zork Nemesis? I am presently playing "Murder on
the Orient Express" based on Agatha Christie book. I like it. But a lot of
interrogating passengers on the train, which you may like or not. I also
playd "And Then there were None" based on Agatha Christie book, and "Evil
Under the Sun". Not long ago, I played "Sherlock Holmes Nemesis" and I have
"Sherlock Holmes, The Awakened", which I got last week. Also, I played
"DreamFall" which was the sequel to "The Longest Journey" though a
completely different story. I liked it. There are other I can't remember
right now, but if you look at one of the game sites such as
www.gameboomers.com and www.justadventure.com you will see whats for sale
and what games are coming out.

Mary

On Mar 1, 11:41 pm, john...@live.com wrote:
> Back in the day I enjoyed the Zork Nemesis game.  After a decade out
> of the gaming loop, I became interested again and have been trying to
> find something similar sold today.  Any suggestions?
> JDM

Maybe you'd wish to play the original Zork game from mainframes:
http://parchment.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/parchment.html?story=http://parchment.toolness.com/if-archive/games/zcode/zdungeon.z5.js

if in doubt how to go through it, see:
http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Command

On Mar 1, 9:16 pm, "Mary" <n...@invalid.ddd> wrote:
> Have you played
> any adventure games sinceZorkNemesis? I am presently playing "Murder on
> the Orient Express" based on Agatha Christie book. I like it. But a lot of
> interrogating passengers on the train, which you may like or not.

Evil Under the Sun is the only one I've tried so far this decade.  It
was okay but it had quite a bit of character interrogations too, and
that dragged the adventure down a bit.
Also, it struck me as awfully linear gameplay, since you had to
complete a list of things before it would take you to the next "day".
I don't recall the classic games of the 90s being like that.

<johndmoon@live.com> wrote in message
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On Mar 1, 9:16 pm, "Mary" <n...@invalid.ddd> wrote:
> Have you played
> any adventure games sinceZorkNemesis? I am presently playing "Murder on
> the Orient Express" based on Agatha Christie book. I like it. But a lot of
> interrogating passengers on the train, which you may like or not.

Evil Under the Sun is the only one I've tried so far this decade.  It
was okay but it had quite a bit of character interrogations too, and
that dragged the adventure down a bit.

Then you probably wouldn't like any Agatha Christie games, as they all
involve quite a lot of interaction with characters in the game. I am playing
"The Awakened" which is a Sherlock Holmes games and its quite a lot of
talking too. Did you play "The Longest Journey"? A lot of people liked it,
but some said too much talking. I liked it and the sequel called Dreamfall
came out a few years ago and I liked it but some people didn't.

>Also, it struck me as awfully linear gameplay, since you had to
complete a list of things before it would take you to the next "day".
I don't recall the classic games of the 90s being like that.

Some of the 90's games had a lot of interaction between characters, but if
you mean interrogations such as Evil Under the Sun, or Sherlock Holmes
Nemesis, they are detective type games so you there is interrogations. Some
are linear. When you mention "next day" what came to mind right away was
"Dracula Unleashed" which would be from mid 90's I think and that was a game
you had to do things in order or the day would not end and you had to do the
day over again. I finally used a walkthrough to avoid frustration, but I
liked the game OK. But there was probably not as many games that were so
linear.
I am thinking of games like Kings quest 6 and 7. They had to be done in
order before moving on. Maybe you don't mind the interaction, but don't like
interrogations in games. I tried Zork Nemesis not long ago and I think I
tried it in Dosbox, but the mouse was too fast, so I didnt get far. Keep
looking. You will find something.

Mary

johndmoon@live.com wrote:
> Back in the day I enjoyed the Zork Nemesis game.  After a decade out
> of the gaming loop, I became interested again and have been trying to
> find something similar sold today.  Any suggestions?
> JDM

Negroes on Mars is supposed to be fantastic, I've heard.

-- 
Nostromo

On Mar 1, 9:41 pm, johndm...@live.com wrote:
> Back in the day I enjoyed the Zork Nemesis game.  After a decade out
> of the gaming loop, I became interested again and have been trying to
> find something similar sold today.  Any suggestions?
> JDM

ZN was an excellent game and one of my favorites but those days are
gone. Off the top of my head, others I've played that you might enjoy
but are also old:

Zork Grand Inquisitor
The Black Dahlia

On Mar 13, 8:59 am, Roberto <rob...@ameritech.net> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 9:41 pm, johndm...@live.com wrote:
>
> > Back in the day I enjoyed the Zork Nemesis game.  After a decade out
> > of the gaming loop, I became interested again and have been trying to
> > find something similar sold today.  Any suggestions?
> > JDM
>
> ZN was an excellent game and one of my favorites but those days are
> gone. Off the top of my head, others I've played that you might enjoy
> but are also old:
>
> Zork Grand Inquisitor
> The Black Dahlia

Also, Grim Fandango wasn't bad.

Here, dilanmotsenbocker@gmail.com wrote:
> what kind of game is zork? im trying to find more games like it but dont know that to search.

Zork Nemesis is a first-person graphical adventure game. If you
searched for "games like myst" you'd more or less get the right set.

("Zork", by itself, is something completely different. But you
apparently didn't play that one. :)

--Z

-- 
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
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<dilanmotsenbocker@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> what kind of game is zork? im trying to find more games like it but dont 
> know that to search.

You might find some Zork games at www.gog.com and like Andrew said in his 
post, Zork Nemesis. It was quite a good game. It might be on gog.com to 
download. Or you might find something else there. Most of their games are 
quite a  reasonable price.

Mary 

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:09:56 -0700 (PDT), dilanmotsenbocker@gmail.com wrote:

>what kind of game is zork? im trying to find more games like it but dont know that to search.

There are several Zork games. If you do a Google search on 'games zork' you will
see the header 'Zork - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'. Click on it and read
all about the history of Zork.

Some of the last Zork games are:

    Return to Zork (1993, Infocom/Activision, graphical)
    The Philosopher's Stone (Activision, unfinished text prequel to Zork
Nemesis)
    Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands (1996, Activision, graphical)
    Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (1997, written by Michael Berlyn and Marc
Blank (original Infocom implementors) and released by Activision to promote the
release of Zork Grand Inquisitor)
    Zork Grand Inquisitor (1997, Activision, graphical)

>what kind of game is zork? im trying to find more games like it but dont 
>know that to search.

    Interactive fiction, interactive text adventure

rms