The Top 7... sexy text adventures
source: http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-top-7-sexy-text-adventures/a-2009081093337344030
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Before graphics, all we had were words... and our incredibly desperate imaginations.
Kids today! With your colored pixels, your moving objects, your talking characters and your fancy multi-button controllers… you don’t know how spoiled you are, do you? Oh, sure, you’ve read about the early days of gaming. You’ve emulated the Atari and NES. You’ve laughed at a Pac-Man reference, or worn an ironic Pong t-shirt.
But unless you were a gamer in the primitive age of the text adventure, you don’t really know. You can’t. You’ve never had to play on a machine with less technology than a fast food drive-thru. You’ve never had to switch floppy disks to continue a 200 kilobyte adventure. You’ve never had to navigate an entire world using only a keyboard – no mouse! – or type out “look” and “examine” just to get a vague idea of what the hell is happening around you.
And you’ve never had to accept THIS as a sex symbol (the pic above.)
We’re not joking. That thing – from 1980’s Mystery House – is supposed to be a woman. Hey, at least she’s made out of lines and shapes! Two to three decades ago, such advancements were considered a high-tech luxury, and more often, gamers were forced to create characters – including female love interests – within the dark and desperate recesses of their imaginations.
Could you have survived? Would you have been “geek” enough to make do with nouns and adjectives instead of skin textures and boob physics? Read on as we dust off seven supposedly sexy examples.
Kids today! With your colored pixels, your moving objects, your talking characters and your fancy multi-button controllers… you don’t know how spoiled you are, do you? Oh, sure, you’ve read about the early days of gaming. You’ve emulated the Atari and NES. You’ve laughed at a Pac-Man reference, or worn an ironic Pong t-shirt.
But unless you were a gamer in the primitive age of the text adventure, you don’t really know. You can’t. You’ve never had to play on a machine with less technology than a fast food drive-thru. You’ve never had to switch floppy disks to continue a 200 kilobyte adventure. You’ve never had to navigate an entire world using only a keyboard – no mouse! – or type out “look” and “examine” just to get a vague idea of what the hell is happening around you.
And you’ve never had to accept THIS as a sex symbol (the pic above.)
We’re not joking. That thing – from 1980’s Mystery House – is supposed to be a woman. Hey, at least she’s made out of lines and shapes! Two to three decades ago, such advancements were considered a high-tech luxury, and more often, gamers were forced to create characters – including female love interests – within the dark and desperate recesses of their imaginations.
Could you have survived? Would you have been “geek” enough to make do with nouns and adjectives instead of skin textures and boob physics? Read on as we dust off seven supposedly sexy examples.
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pjacobs51
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The kids today probably couldn't imagine only 3 channels on TV (or four if you lived in a big city, and your TV had UHF, then you could watch PBS too).
Don't even mention "DOS" commands. (not sexy)
- 2 years ago
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pjacobs51
