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| Topic | What would you say are the best/most important/influential OLD adventure games |
| Dikitain 10/31/19 10:40:56 PM #33: | Zork was pretty influential, but probably not for the reasons you are thinking. The game engine (Z-machine) was one of the first to be built with multi-platform in mind. Before that it was super expensive to make a game for more then one system (and we are not talking about something like today where you only have a handful of platforms, there were dozens back then). Infocom basically made one of the first virtual machines that were super cheap to make for a computer system, but were able to play their games so that they only had to make one version of the game that could run against the virtual machine. It was pretty revolutionary, and is the same concept used by most modern game engines to make games that can run on all platforms with very little effort. --- I am a Contract Software Developer. What does that mean? I don't know, let me know if you figure it out. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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