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It's peculiar how you can write an article subtitled "The rise and fall of type-in text games" without even mentioning the words Sierra, Zork or Infocom. Btw,
by ranting-moth 3y ago
It's peculiar how you can write an article subtitled "The rise and fall of type-in text games" without even mentioning the words Sierra, Zork or Infocom.
Btw, if you played the original Sierra games you'll find this story very interesting (and saddening),
How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/inside-story-sierra-online-death-cuc-cendant-fraud https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/inside-story-sierra-o...
- mryall 3y agoNot sure if you read TFA, but it was about games whose code you “type in” from a book or magazine. I did it a lot back in the 80s when I first started programming. The Sierra games took typed commands, but you got the games on diskettes. That was a later era than the games mentioned in the article.