Friday, September 23, 2005

First there was Zork, now there's Hamlet

Once you've taken the Hamlet test, what else can you do but play the Hamlet text-based adventure game?

I remember playing text-based games like Zork (along with Lemonade Stand and Eliza) on my Apple IIe (yes, evidently I'm old now).

I always sucked at all computer games as I have a woeful lack of game logic. I've needed the cheat guides to get me through every adventure game I've ever tried. King's Quest, Starship Titanic, Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest - if I've tried to play them, I've failed miserably at it unless I had step-by-step directions telling me to "go there and pick up this, dummy!" Even then, I wasn't so good. No wonder I've stopped playing.

**UPDATE**
It looks like the Hamlet game is gone for now - bandwidth exceeded. Hopefully it will come back soon so I can use such useful text-adventure commands such as "take skull" and "commit incest"

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