How we would play old-skool textbased games nowadays

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Esmoreit on 02 December 2009

After last weeks article on dealing with Microsofts customer service after a RROD, Brockway now deals with old-school text-based adventures afterbecoming a jaded old gamer:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/revisiting-old-school-text-adventures-as-a-jaded-modern-gamer/comment-page-3/#comment-129738

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Kantor on 02 December 2009

If that game is real, I want it.

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Mummelmann on 02 December 2009

That was awesome!

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okr on 02 December 2009

Zorklon - Irkins the Impish - Puckel the Puckish - The Phallus-Beast from the Underdark
"Flee? South? Oh..oh shit. Mexico? Flee to Mexico? Do they know?"

That was hilarious on several levels.

Thanks for posting this, Esmoreit.

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Esmoreit on 02 December 2009

What is even more surprising is that last time I checked, the guy ghad over 100 reactions, and none of them were negative. A first in Cracked history.

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