I really enjoyed that, given that I've got copies of all of the Infocom games on my shelf at this moment.

:)

Love the reference. Hate the website. +/-0

Zork III FTW BTW. That and Cutthroats.

>open mailbox

As an old school PC gamer, I loved it.

Okay. I usually don't click on the Cracked links, but that was actually pretty funny.

Man, does this bring back memories. I remember playing LORD on my 2400 baud modem and thinking it was the pinnacle of technology.

Take the analgesic.

You die... -- More --

Eddie_Dean_NY: Take the analgesic.

Lay down in front of the bulldozer

moike: Wow, I expected one of the twenty year old /b/ set to throw up a tl;dr by now with no respect for roots.

/lawn

I'm in the 20-25 year old /b/ set, and that was completely awesome. Makes me regret being so young.

The background chatter was funny too.
/Sic Semper Tyrannis!

ragekage: Man, does this bring back memories. I remember playing LORD on my 2400 baud modem and thinking it was the pinnacle of technology.

You rich kids pissed me off. All we had was a stick and a cat tied to a bungee cord.

I put on my robe and wizard hat

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

When I was about 12, we had an 8086 with dual 5.25" floppies. I played some text-based adventure with about 5 blocky ASCII graphics that it recycled throughout the game. It was about killing a vampire lord in a town or something like that. All I remember was the intense frustration I felt at never being able to guess the exact syntax it was looking for. Thinking about it still makes me want to punch kittens, and I'm a guy that normally doesn't want to punch kittens very much.

"Pick up lantern"
"Huh!?"
"Get lantern"
"Huh!?"
"Obtain lantern"
"Huh!?"
"Receive lantern"
"Huh!?"
"format a: /q /y"

fappomatic: ragekage: Man, does this bring back memories. I remember playing LORD on my 2400 baud modem and thinking it was the pinnacle of technology.

You rich kids pissed me off. All we had was a stick and a cat tied to a bungee cord.

You're lucky! We didn't have sticks or cats. Bungie cords? Pah! Dad would tie dead possums to us with our own entrails!

Anyone ever play Deadline? That was one of my favorites of the Infocom text adventures. The reason I bring this up is it had a rather disturbing part in which you find a copy of a book that shares the same name as the title of the game. If you read the end of the book, you pull out a gun and blow your brains out.
/Sgt. Duffy was a smartass

Further proof that Cracked's lists are their only quality/funny content. The worst are the webcomics they link to (White Ninja? Seriously?) and the liveblogs.

wait, wait, wait...
Are you guys saying games aren't like that anymore ???

Yeah, so I don't play games on PCs.
And boy this brings me back to the good old days when mr.BA tried to get me to.

Cold1s: fappomatic: ragekage: Man, does this bring back memories. I remember playing LORD on my 2400 baud modem and thinking it was the pinnacle of technology.

You rich kids pissed me off. All we had was a stick and a cat tied to a bungee cord.

You're lucky! We didn't have sticks or cats. Bungie cords? Pah! Dad would tie dead possums to us with our own entrails!

You had a dad?

lolmadillo:
Lay down in front of the bulldozer

What do you want to lay down?

I refuse to tell you what is going on in the room even in LEWD mode, but it involves a lot of lubricants, some plastic tubing, and a yak.

rebelyell2006: I'm in the 20-25 year old /b/ set, and that was completely awesome. Makes me regret being so young.

Well, you say that, but believe you me...try installing Zork I on an emulator and see if you can keep at it for 30 minutes without gouging your eyes out, if you can, you're a better man than me.

You'll appreciate the humor better for having played it a bit. It's like you have to anticipate the command syntax of the game in order to play it...like reverse engineering with no clues...it's very frustrating to say the least.

/goes back to playing WoW
//has fond memories of 'Pirates', 'The Bard's Tale', 'Dungeon Master', and yes...even 'Zork'

I cast detect good on the mailbox

2005: "Press X to not die"
1985: "Type 'EAST' to not die"

Games have come a long way.

untaken_name: When I was about 12, we had an 8086 with dual 5.25" floppies. I played some text-based adventure with about 5 blocky ASCII graphics that it recycled throughout the game. It was about killing a vampire lord in a town or something like that. All I remember was the intense frustration I felt at never being able to guess the exact syntax it was looking for. Thinking about it still makes me want to punch kittens, and I'm a guy that normally doesn't want to punch kittens very much.

"Pick up lantern"
"Huh!?"
"Get lantern"
"Huh!?"
"Obtain lantern"
"Huh!?"
"Receive lantern"
"Huh!?"
"format a: /q /y"

Exactly. These games were no where near as good as TFA. The only command that would have worked was "look". After 5 minutes of "Huh?" crap any one with sense would load up an ASCII based maze game and go to town.

Plugh