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Help finding an old text based game (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Corr@lemm.ee to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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There was a post on lemmy a couple of weeks ago about an old, hard, I think text based game. I wanted to look it up but forgot the name and I can't seem to find it anymore. Any help with this would be really appreciated.

Edit: I don't think it's on the list of text based games on Wikipedia. I've added a comment with some meagre details I can remember

The post referred to it being something they always went back to and it being a lightweight game (maybe from the 90s)

I found it!!! Nethack is what I was looking for. Not text based but ascii. Sorry for the super vague question. It was mentioned in passing on some forum talking about ascii/text-based games.

The post I was referring to: https://lemmy.world/post/1570921

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[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

The one where you could do the thing, and it'd do some stuff?

[-] LegionElite@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It would help if you were a little more descriptive. Like is it something similar to knights of pen and paper? A dungeon and dragons kinda game?

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text-based_computer_games

[-] orhtej3@latte.isnot.coffee 5 points 1 year ago

Sure, but give us something to work with ;)

[-] rotkehlchen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Zork?

[-] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You realize there was a good decade between the first home PC games and the time when computer mice became ubiquitous, right? You're going to have to say something about the game other than "text based", because that's no more descriptive than "mouse based" or "gamepad based".

[-] Furimbus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

VERBOSE

Okay, now try asking again.

[-] Corr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Okay definitely valid about the lack of details... The only thing I can really remember about it was it being very punishing, and near impossible without a guide of some sort.

I feel like there maybe have been mention of crafting and/or colony management. I'll see if I can find more details than this

[-] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, that sounds like that game with dwarves. Dwarf Fortress or something?

[-] Corr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

No, it's called nethack! There isn't any colony management as far as I know tho. I was mistaken in that

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