Re: ARE ADVENTURES GAMES DEAD?

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From: the count
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 00:00

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> OK, now to the topic of text adventure games dying out: The basis
> of text games is TEXT--you have to slow down (especially slow readers)
> and read each word of the message and then you have to use
> your cognitive brain and come up with a response that will eventually
> formulate into a solution to the game--that takes A LOT of right-brain
> power and time. Text games can be very frustrating.

On the other hand, go get yourself a MUD list and you will see that
mudding is going strong.  Of course, a lot of the "good" mudders do
tend to be older (by now they are probably mostly in the mid to late
twenties) and grew up playing Zork :)

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From: the count <eglam...@angelfire.com>
Subject: Re: ARE ADVENTURES GAMES DEAD?
Date: 1998/05/15
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