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Yes, but does it run Quake?

Of course you can play the real thing: IF Quake (recycled from here). Too bad it was never finished.

What about this. The best of both worlds? :)

Well, they already did Q1 E1M1 as a text adventure, and, in my humble opinion, if you forget the slightly sarcastic tone in it (after all, this was made as an April Fools joke)...

As you enter the West portal room, the words "THIS IS THE FIRST EPISODE: DIMENSION OF THE DOOMED" materialize in front of you. After briefly panicking slightly, you continue, when all of a sudden the words, "THE MYSTICAL PAST COMES ALIVE..." pop up. Carefully, doing your best not to trip any more mystery words,you tiptoe your way into the room.

...the game's action is quite faithful to the original, with insightful commentary as well - it was heck of speedier and thrilling than most of the text adventures I've played, and a lot of fun too:

A grunt is standing here, armed with a shotgun and looking rather surly.

The Grunt's shotgun nicks your leg, hitting you for 5 points. It won't kill you,but you'd really rather it not happen again.

>attack grunt with shotgun
You hit the Grunt taking off 10 from his health.

The Grunt's shotgun wounds your torso for 20 points.

>attack grunt with shotgun
You hit the Grunt taking off 10 from his health and killing him. Move over, Thresh.

[Your score has just gone up by two points.]

Man that looks like an awesome game. Where can I download it?

I think the text-adventure port of Doom 3 is still languishing in development hell, but there's always Interactive Fiction Quake, although the graphics admittedly aren't quite the same...

Well, you can already play Quake as a text adventure...

A grunt is standing here, armed with a shotgun and looking rather surly.

The Grunt's shotgun shoots across your shoulder, hitting you for 5 points. It's only a flesh wound.

>attack grunt with shotgun
You hit the Grunt taking off 10 from his health.

The Grunt's shotgun hits you right in the thigh, taking off 10 points. That could have been much worse.

Ah, I think you were looking for this, then.

Sorry, sorry! Couldn't resist. What you really wanted was this. Screenshots here and here.

Silly posts get silly answers. :-)

Actually, Jason Bergman does what you are describing and started displaying the results on its blog.

On a related note, don't forget IF Quake

Something like this?

http://www.loonyboi.com/if/quake/

Someone did this for the first level of Quake:
http://loonyboi.com/if/quake/

someone will write a text based interface to this (like these guys did)...
Net result: command line + 3d engine + text based interface = lots of wasted processor cycles

This is obviously an April Fools bit. I mean, it says right here that "all screens were taken on Mac OS X running Zoom."

A ground-breaking new game ported to OS X? Yeah, like anyone's going to believe THAT! Better luck next year, simoniker!

(PS: I own a Mac so I'm allowed to make these jokes)