Text adventures arrive on the DS via unofficial channels
We can't tell you to download them (in fact, we'll tell you not to), but we can definitely applaud the technical achievement. A homebrew genius called papafuji has ported a massive selection of classic text adventures and early graphic adventure games to the DS, including all of Infocom's text adventures and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams' interactive fiction.
These aren't just barebones ports, either: you can save games, and you can choose to enter text via an onscreen keyboard or handwriting input! And the game engine contains shorthand functionality for common commands like cardinal directions and "get".
Some of the games are public domain, but most aren't, and we aren't sure which games fall in which category. Therefore, we're officially warning you: if you download these games, there's a good chance that you are a pirate.
[Thanks, Joq!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dan Elkayam @ Mar 14th 2007 7:46PM
Well I saw that last link coming. XD
Macroy @ Mar 14th 2007 9:10PM
Now DS owners everywhere can share classics such as "Softporn Adventure" with their non-gamer older relatives!
hvnlysoldr @ Mar 14th 2007 11:23PM
That German intro to TMNT is weird. Can't say Ninja or nunchuk? The Japanese one is good. I wonder where I can find more with subs...
Anyway true homebrew as in they wrote and created everything themselves should be all right... right?
james @ Mar 15th 2007 9:38PM
Far as I know, the Frotz interpreter itself isn't illegal to download. I still have an old Infocom collection that I would love to try out with this engine.