Ahoy, mateys! Quit yer blubberin’ and see if ye can’t act like a pirate instead!
(I spent an untold number of hours on this game as a kid, sitting hunched over the keyboard of my old TI-99/4A. Damn, does that make me feel old. :-))
Ahoy, mateys! Quit yer blubberin’ and see if ye can’t act like a pirate instead!
(I spent an untold number of hours on this game as a kid, sitting hunched over the keyboard of my old TI-99/4A. Damn, does that make me feel old. :-))
My kids and I used to play these for hours as well. I remember being fascinated with the fact that my kids (and I as well) could get totally on the edge of our seats in anticipation and almost fear for what might come next. And the whole game was text. The power of “I’m in a flat in London. Obvious exits are: NONE” Wow.
By the way. I have many of these games that run on a PC. Let me know if you want them. Just email me.
Heh. Bad John. I don’t need anything else to distract me before I get this revision done. :-)
Thank you for the offer, though!
Ah, I never had “Pirate Adventure”. Just Blasto, Alpine (something), Tombstone, TI Invaders, whatever their pacman clone was, and games like that.
And the Extended Basic cartridge, of course. I think my family really wondered why I needed dozens and dozens of cassette tapes.
Hmm, interesting game. No prepositions…
Yeah, by the time my family got rid of that TI, we had a huge line of add-ons to it–too many to hold on the desk. Silly thing. :-)
I love the old text adventures. I spent a lot of hours on the old Crystal Caverns one, too (if that’s its name–I’m not sure I even remember).
I must have grown up in the boonies, since I never saw any text adventure games for the TI. I would have loved them. My first introduction was the Zork trilogy on the Apple][… must have been ’84 or so.
Ah, games used to be a lot more fun. I’m not big on the last decade’s slide into “click as fast as you can” games.
I actually played the Crystal Caverns game “online” with the Source back in the late 70s. :-) The Source was awesome, for the time. You could get e-mail, play games, and post to message boards that people ended up using like chat rooms. I posted to one called “Chatter” frequently and developed an alter ego for my twelve-year-old self based on Anne McCaffrey’s dragonrider books and my love of unicorns. :-)
The SOURCE!
I had nearly forgotten about my earliest online exploits. I think I recall a 5oo dollar phone bill, and “hot chatting” online by telling guys I was a 20 year old woman with big boobs.
I know. I keep trying to pull up info on the Source, but the name is so common that Google doesn’t help me out at all. It was well before the Internet proper….