Interactive Text Adventures Come To the Kindle

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 8, 2010 @06:52PM from the you-are-likely-to-eat-some-glue dept.

dotarray writes with news that Amazon's Kindle will now play text-based adventure games, such as Zork. From the article: "... And it makes a ridiculous amount of sense: text is gorgeous and easily-readable on the e-ink screens, the lack of color isn’t a problem, and – let’s face it – the sort of people who are likely to buy an e-reader are exactly the sort of people who are likely to love vintage games. ... The developers have also integrated a save-game feature so you can pick up where you left off, using Amazon’s Whispernet feature – and promise that they are looking to put more modern Z-machine games into the system, too. (Squee!) Unfortunately, it’s not perfect. The Zork family of games are notoriously frustrating (even when you’re not eaten by a Grue), and the Kindle’s text entry system doesn’t help with that, especially when entering numbers. A full keyboard would make things more fluid, but – really – if you want that, why not just play on your PC?"

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Inventory by Lissajous · 2010-10-08 19:00 · Score: 5, Funny

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From TFS by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-08 19:19 · Score: 5, Funny

And it makes a ridiculous amount of sense
No, ridiculous sense is not sensible enough! We need to be more sensible! Prepare brains for.... LUDICROUS SENSE.
Re:For some reason I read that as by 91degrees · 2010-10-08 19:23 · Score: 5, Funny

You are in a maze of convoluted tax forms, all alike.