Anchorhead
Nov. 4th, 2004 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dryfterThis (public domain) game has kept me up late for a couple of nights:
Anchorhead
It's an old-school text-adventure game, but it's really good. (It runs on the Z-Machine, so you can play it on your PC, Mac, mobile phone, whatever once you download the appropriate z-machine emulator - eg. Frotz)
The game is set in its namesake, Anchorhead, a small coastal village, not too far from Arkham, Massachusett. You have come here with your husband to oversee your brother-in-law's estate, who commited suicide after murdering his wife and daughters. What sent him mad? What secret is hiding in this sleepy fishing village?
The plot goes nicely, the mystery and secrets of the town slowly unravelling, and the game interface is good too - i didn't find myself getting annoyed with the interpreter at any stage, even though I haven't played one of these sort of games in ages.
Anchorhead
It's an old-school text-adventure game, but it's really good. (It runs on the Z-Machine, so you can play it on your PC, Mac, mobile phone, whatever once you download the appropriate z-machine emulator - eg. Frotz)
The game is set in its namesake, Anchorhead, a small coastal village, not too far from Arkham, Massachusett. You have come here with your husband to oversee your brother-in-law's estate, who commited suicide after murdering his wife and daughters. What sent him mad? What secret is hiding in this sleepy fishing village?
The plot goes nicely, the mystery and secrets of the town slowly unravelling, and the game interface is good too - i didn't find myself getting annoyed with the interpreter at any stage, even though I haven't played one of these sort of games in ages.
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Date: 2004-11-04 11:46 am (UTC)I'm currently playing Sherlock, where you are Watson and have to track down the missing Crown jewels. It's a old Infocom commercial release.
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Date: 2004-11-04 12:11 pm (UTC)I wonder how long it will be until I have a phone that can handle playing Exult (http://exult.sourceforge.net/)?
I don't know why anyone would bother paying money for lame mobile phone games, when you can get all sorts of classics for free. Have you noticed that Frozen Bubble is available for symbianOS?
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Date: 2004-11-04 11:52 am (UTC)Text adventures - slippery slope to NO SLEEP, though, especially when playable curled up in bed.
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Date: 2004-11-04 12:08 pm (UTC)but it's ok, I have the shiny chromed espresso machine of DOOM at work :)
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Date: 2004-11-04 01:52 pm (UTC)Sometimes I really wish I'd not lost my coffee habit, but more than a small cup makes me jittery now.
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Date: 2004-11-04 01:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-04 01:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-04 01:50 pm (UTC)Oh OK then. But you'll have to let me set up my Zaurus with the new ROM first.
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Date: 2004-11-04 01:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-11-05 02:07 am (UTC)Is it me, or is it a it too non-linear. I mean, I don't really know what to do next, so am flitting from one place to another - getting *stuff* done, although I don't really know where it;s going. And usually at this point there'd be some sort of goal in mind, but I seem to be just digging up info, and whatnot, rather aimlessly.
Still liking it, though.
re: Anchorhead
Date: 2004-11-05 10:24 am (UTC)Although, I don't know how far into it you are already?
Re: Anchorhead
Date: 2004-11-05 03:05 pm (UTC)Meh - It's just I think I'd be looking for gitfaced husband, and not digging through archives seemingly aimlessly, if it were more realistic.
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Date: 2004-11-05 05:12 am (UTC)addicted!
damn you!
[and thanks.]