I am a retro-computing fanboy and recently have been reliving the world of text adventure games on one of my most favoured "failed" computers of the 80's, the Oric-1/Atmos range of UK 8-bit machines.
https://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software
(Search for i.e. 'adventure')
The aesthetic is so pure, and in the context of oric.org, the titles are a testament to the spirit of an entirely different form of walled-garden/app-store.
I favour the Oric, and many of the great old architectures like it (Amstrad CPC6128!!) not for much more salient reason than it was my first 'real' computer, on which I first gained an immense amount of arcane knowledge that led me to an even more immense amount of arcana.
The adventure has been text since the very first day. A coders adventure game never STOP's.
*bonus edit: everything old is new again, and it is awesome:
https://defence-force.org/index.php?page=games&game=blakes7
https://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software
(Search for i.e. 'adventure')
The aesthetic is so pure, and in the context of oric.org, the titles are a testament to the spirit of an entirely different form of walled-garden/app-store.
I favour the Oric, and many of the great old architectures like it (Amstrad CPC6128!!) not for much more salient reason than it was my first 'real' computer, on which I first gained an immense amount of arcane knowledge that led me to an even more immense amount of arcana.
The adventure has been text since the very first day. A coders adventure game never STOP's.
*bonus edit: everything old is new again, and it is awesome:
https://defence-force.org/index.php?page=games&game=blakes7