On: The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text...

[anthk]

On the text games, you have Z Machine games from IF Archive. You need Frotz or any Z machine interpreter.

A good list:

-Anchorhead

-Spider and Web

-Entangled

-All Thing Devours

-Vicious Cycles

-Enemies

-Curses+Jigsaw

-Inside Woman

[Y_Y → anthk]

What about classics like:

- Lost Pig by Admiral Jota

- Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short

- Shade by Andrew Plotkin

[anthk → Y_Y]

- Lost Pig was an intro to IF, kinda like 9:05 but expanded. It's good but not a masterpiece.

- CM it's like those American crazed crossword puzzles but mixed with text adventures. It's a great example and an oddball, for sure.

- Shade it's an experiment more like a game. From Plotkin I prefer Spider and Web by a lot.