Comment by gertlex
1 day ago
I've been gradually reading the Digital Antiquarian's series of posts [0] about history of computer games. Many of these feature links to try out these games (I haven't yet gotten to games that were released after I was born)... with user setup required (take this disk image, run it in a Apple II emulator, etc). The history so far has heavily featured text based simple parser adventure games.
This might be the way in which I finally try one of these games out. Though, I'm betting my attention won't last long.
[0] https://www.filfre.net/the-digital-antiquarian-e-book-librar...
I finished all Infocom games during covid (and read all Digital Antiquarian articles since then). Despite being very interested in the games, I knew I wouldn't have energy to literally beat them. So I played with walkthroughs, stopping to examine things and enjoy the scenery, so to speak. There was no challenge, but I still had fun. Somewhat like visiting a museum.
I think Zarf's Visible Zorker implementation of Suspended is the best way to play it. He incorporated the map into the game itself, it's so good.
https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/suspended/