Destiny quest vs fabled lands5/7/2023 It had Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Asteroids… There was no levelling of characters, no assigning of skill points, no questing or story progression – hell, there wasn’t even any achievements to unlock (I feel the entire modern gaming world shudder). When the Atari 2600 came out, it was something of a gaming revolution – the first popular and truly dedicated console. If you were lucky, you might have a friend with a BBC Computer who had a copy of Hunchback (imagine Sonic but on a zimmer frame). As teenagers, we didn’t have the likes of Skyrim or World of Warcraft to immerse ourselves in. Gamebooks (like Lone Wolf and Fighting Fantasy) became popular at a time when other forms of interactive entertainment were still in their infancy. The power of life and death was, quite literally, in our own hands. At last, here was our chance to leave the real world behind, and set out on an exciting adventure – a chance to become someone else entirely and have our choices make a real difference. “Oh crud, I just got my legs ripped off by a giant cockroach!”īack in the eighties, such scenes were commonplace in schools and homes across the UK as nerds like myself discovered the delights of interactive fiction. Then the fated adventurer lowers his mighty tome and speaks. The whole world holds its collective breath…. Eyes scan the spidery print, knuckles whitening from the tension. Pages rasp as they are flicked back and forth. Our brave adventurer smiles, his pencil-stub deftly adding numbers to his hallowed parchment, their cryptic meaning known only to the dedicated few.
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