![]() Sierra capitalise on the huge success of King’s Quest by releasing a sequel, subtitled Romancing the Throne. Meanwhile, King’s Quest is released by Sierra and the graphic adventure is born. Infocom follow up Zork with a couple of sequels, a new game called Planetfall and a game based on Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy (pictured). Despite this, the genre proves to be popular, offering as yet unparalleled levels of involvement with the characters and story. It is a text adventure, sans graphics, in which your situation is described to you in text form, and you type in your instructions, such as “go north” and “pick up stick”. ![]() Until that happens, though, we’ve got the feature as it was, with this disclaimer pasted at the top. I think it still serves a purpose – to provide a brief overview of the genre – but though it’s been updated a couple of times since the original date of publication, it could probably still do with an overhaul. Note – like some of our other ‘brief history’ features, this was written some time ago, before many of the games mentioned here were revisited and reviewed for the site.
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