Text Adventures Adventure Video Games

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Top: Games: Video_Games: Adventure: Text_Adventures:

• - Paul O'Brian's Interactive Fiction page, featuring the games and reviews he's written, information about the webzine he edits, and lots of nifty IF stuff.
  
• - Collection of game reviews he wrote for Computer Currents magazine, and selected links to IF resources.
  
• - Photos of the denizens of ifMUD and r.a.i-f.
  
• - An online index of the Interactive Fiction FTP archive, a rec.arts.int-fiction archive, and a research library for topics in game design.
  
• - Lots of classic 1980s computer software for sale/trade, specializing in Infocom text adventures. Monthly collector's column, waiting list, links to other software collectors' pages.
  
• - Recommended playing list for interactive fiction, compiled by Emily Short.
  
• - Michael Feir's collection of what he feels is the best freely available interactive fiction with reviews for each game.
  
• - The page for classic text adventure afficionados. Covers Scott Adams, Brian Howarth, Infocom, Level 9, and Magnetic Scrolls.
  
• - Offers a place where testers and authors can meet each other.
  
• - General information for people new to interactive fiction.
  
• - Information and tutorials.
  
• - A place for authors and reviwers to meet.
  
• - IF stuff in general.
  
• - A collection of articles about interactive fiction.
  
• - Annual competition for games which exclude traditional "game elements" from entries, and also try to lift any plot as much as possible.
  
• - Site contains some general information about text adventure games, and games that can be downloaded or play the Java version of the game online.
  
• - A MUD for text adventure enthusiasts.
  
• - A database of adventures for 8-bit computers.
  
• - Information about a set of games suddenly posted in the community that had suspicious origins.
  
• - How to play an adventure, how to know which commands to type in, and all those little bits and pieces that'll help you get past the first post.
  
• - Public ratings and comments of Interactive Fiction games.
  
• - Humorous text adventure by Crummycom.
  
• - Articles, discussion and links.
  
• - Ranked and annotated items, covering academic articles, fan or community web sites, influential amateur articles, and references to text adventures in mainstream literature. Focuses on the cultural and literary significance of text adventures.
  
  

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