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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2734334" data-attributes="member: 7240">Talk about bringing back the memories! I loved those games when I was a teenager -- no graphics just pure text. Infocom was my favourite software company. I even played the original Adventure, the game written in Fortran that started it all. My favourites were, I think, Zork II, Lurking Horror and the two games Douglas Adams wrote: Hitchhikers Guide and Bureaucracy. Those of you who have never played Bureaucracy really missed out -- it's right up there with the Dr. Who episode Shada on the list of great things by Adams that few people have seen. I too learned to program just so I could write these games. I wrote crappy natural language parsers and everything (in Pascal, no less).What a great thread to wake up to! I'm going to check out those links right now.One more thing: A friend and I still discuss the bizarre playstyle of a longtime gaming associate in terms of these games. Although she has never played them as far as we can tell, her D&D behaviour is nevertheless best described in that Infocom syntax:Essentially, this player's normal style is best expressed as GET ALL followed not long after by USE ALL WITH ALL. Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane!</blockquote>