Not sure what got me thinking about it, but somehow I was pondering my earliest days of computer gaming from the mid to late seventies.
My friend's Dad was at Caltech and had a portable terminal, complete with thermal printer and cradle-type modem for those old phones.
We'd get to use it on weekends and spend entire days playing ADVENT or Dungeon (later called Zork) text-based adventure games. I still remember countless hours mapping those games...dropping items in mazes so each location could be identified and mapped.
Ah those were the days!
So who else played these games while they were still running on PDP-10s? (Before the CP/M, Apple, TRS-80 ports)?
Yes. I am old.
My friend's Dad was at Caltech and had a portable terminal, complete with thermal printer and cradle-type modem for those old phones.
We'd get to use it on weekends and spend entire days playing ADVENT or Dungeon (later called Zork) text-based adventure games. I still remember countless hours mapping those games...dropping items in mazes so each location could be identified and mapped.
Ah those were the days!
So who else played these games while they were still running on PDP-10s? (Before the CP/M, Apple, TRS-80 ports)?
Yes. I am old.