It wasn’t too long ago that I noticed a nerdcore rapper tackling the subject of text based adventure games. I loved my text based adventure games when I was young. If it weren’t for them I’m convinced I’d not be able to touch type, nor would I know the defenition for “verbose”. Now it seems that the popular software (popular amongst us text based adventure game enthusiasts that is) Frotz has been ported to an Apple App!
Frotz is a Z-machine interpreter which is needed to run Zork and other Zork like games, made popular waaaay back in the day by this little company called Infocom.
It’s a free app from the store, which comes with a bunch of games pre-loaded, and the ability to natively browse the IFDB (Interactive Fiction DataBase) for new stuff to download and play.
Game play is a little slow thanks to the iPhone keyboard but it’s still pretty much the same experience as it was back in the 80s.
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