To celebrate Halloween this year, former Game|Life contributor Susan Arendt has written a text adventure game, dubbed Phantom of the Arcade. As usual with the classic genre, the majority of the ...

Born from a passion for caving and the wish to turn this into a digital adventure for all ages, Colossal Cave Adventure has grown from its quiet introduction in 1976 by William Crowther into the ...

Text adventure games may seem like ancient history but they have aspects in common with today's casual and social games. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist although the opinions expressed here ...

Forget clicking endless links in your next deep-dive into bizarre topics in a Wikipedia binge, the new old-school way for navigating that peakless mountain of information is a text adventure game. The ...

Enterprising gamers are formatting vintage text-based adventure games such as Zork I, II and III for the Kindle and other dedicated e-readers. "Many people cut their teeth on the imagination-fueled ...

Adventure games can take a myriad of forms these days, including relying solely on text. Creative developers can experiment with all kinds of settings, characters, and storylines, giving players an ...

These days, adventure gamers are filled with options. There are so many viable titles to get through, with a conveyor belt of new releases frequently coming to the fore. Many of these products are ...