"If you've ever wandered around Raccoon City looking for a gem to place into a slot, or if you've ever felt the rush of satisfaction upon solving one of Zelda's intricate systems of levers and objects, or if you were impressed by Knights of the Old Republic's clever NPCs and dialogue, then you owe a debt to interactive fiction. In a time when video games were much simpler and graphics cards were rare, interactive fiction (also known as text adventures) was the state of the art. This influential genre was the forerunner to virtually all of today's adventure games."
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Mar 1, 2004, 05:15 PM
