Wired News: Text Games Get Film Treatment

Jason Scott, a UNIX sysadmin from Boston is shooting a documentary about the text-based adventure game genre of the late 70’s and early 80’s. There weren’t any flashy graphics, just text on a screen. Your own imagination played a large role in your progress and interpretation of the game. That’s something that seems alien in this age of heavily scripted photorealistically rendered games. I remember enjoying some of those games so much that I tried my hand at writing a few. (probably to the detrement of my studies..) I’m glad someone is documenting these things since all I have are my memories. I might just have to pull the old Apple II out and reminisce a bit. 🙂