Old Skool text adventures don't get enough press in gamesblog's opinion. We've tried, but have had our hands slapped. OK, it's time to try again.
There are some tremendous "interactive fictions" (as they're now called) out there in Internet Land, from the re-issue of the classic Hitchhiker's Guilde to the Galaxy to the superb adaptation of Hamlet (which was such a hit that it seems to have overstepped its bandwidth allowance).
The 11th Annual Interactive Fiction awards committee has just posted up the nominees for their latest crop of adventure stories, and for those with a limited amount of time/patience/attention, these should do just the trick for a computer game fix.
