Jinxter

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... example and got a "can't do that" message. Fortunately Jinxter has a rather good parser and does understand many different word combinations and accepts a variety of different actions to perform the same thing. Hence toss, throw, lob, hurl and chuck, can all be used to throw something for example, no shortsighted/lazy programming here. I did say there were no graphics with text adventures and that is not strictly true. These aren't like te point and click style interface seen today but rather in so...more

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Jinxter: Who Needs Flashy Graphics Anyway? (1057 words)
by - written on 31/08/01 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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Jinxter is one of the best text adventure games which I played on the Amiga and I used to play a lot of them. Talk to any 20+ year old and they will remember fondly the days of the text adventures, something which kids these days are sadly missing out on with all the flashy graphics, sound effects and ultimately short lived playability of many of the modern games. Text adventures had no graphics, no sound and were as the name suggests just plain text description of events and places and the player had to type in what they wanted to do. You would be told that you are in a field and that there is a bull here for example and you would have to type in what you wanted to ... Read the complete review