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Oldest for me is the text adventure game Zork, the first release was all the way back in 1979. It's a pretty fun game, but it's damn evil at times, I hate the bastard that came up with Grues.

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I guess the NES would be the oldest game I've played. My Dad or uncles or someone had an Atari but I don't ever remember playing it. Just watching.

We have a Turbo Grafx here somewhere. Is it older than NES? I want to get it out and try it.

I think that the oldest game that I have played is Super Mario. I can’t remember how many times I finish the game. Back then, it seems that no game can beat this game.

Wow, hmm. Well, if you're talking computer games, I have to think back to my first computer -- A Commodore Vic-20, when I was playing some kind of text-adventure game I can't remember. My library had an old TRS-80 (Trash 80) with the big 5 1/4 diskettes, and I played some sort of Star Trek game on that one. Mostly text and cheesy ANSI graphics. Written entirely in Fortran, I think, and it dealt with a lot of math. This would have been 1981 or so. The IBM-PC and the Apple Mac were 3 years away, and no one knew who the hell Bill Gates was. For video console games, my earliest was Pong. We had a very old Pong console that hardly ever worked right. :-)

The text adventure would most likely have been Zork, which practically everyone was playing at that time

The very oldest games I've played were probably Wolfenstein (the original one), Taipan, Karateka, and some game where you had to explore, fight and trade. I remember it (although I forget the name) because you had to bargain with the trader to get a good price if you offered too low a price he would get insulted and withdraw the item

Ah yes, Zork.

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Huh. Never did know what the heck a grue was. I played "Castle Wolfenstien" too, I LOVED that game. Crappy graphics, but I liked the story and the game-play a lot. And what was nice was, it was a different game every time you played and finished it.

I present to the United States, a picture of a Grue in its natural habitat.

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/8802/gruebf0.png

Forgot who took the photo, I've been trying to get his name, but I haven't seen him since he took the picture. XD

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I don't believe that computer games cause violence but they add an additional amount of creativity to it. - Blanka

I don't know anything about PSPs or homebrew modding, please don't ask me about it.

ROTFL! Thanks. I always wondered. I really miss the Zork series. I think Infocom, at the height of the computer revolution, was making some of the most ingenious and thought-provoking games ever. The text-adventure isn't dead if we don't let it die. I think it's actually high time someone make a new, larger, more detailed text-adventure game, with hundreds of thousands of pages and possibilities.

Radical Dreamers is a pretty fun text adventure game, it was never released outside the US but it's been translated.

Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai H�seki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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I don't believe that computer games cause violence but they add an additional amount of creativity to it. - Blanka

I don't know anything about PSPs or homebrew modding, please don't ask me about it.

Thanks! I did a curious search last night and quite a few text-adventures are alive and well. The latest I found was from 2004, called Pateri. I haven't checked it out yet, but will see if I can D/L today. Also, I'm reading that World of Warcraft was offering a text-adventure as well. Can anyone confirm?