In 1983 I started high school, Culture Club released Colour by Numbers, Dad won a Commodore 64 and a 3.5″ floppy-drive and Infocom had a couple of text adventures available for the C64 by the now infamous name of Zork. Sometime Christmas morning my brothers and sister were playing with their new presents outside so I had the opportunity to crank up my Karma Chameleons and enter the world of Zork. For days I would type L(ook), N(orth), S(outh) etc. working on puzzles and going around in circles.
Yesterday I stumbled across a reference to interactive fiction again and thought, “Great. Something else I can use to chew up hours of time.” The lure of the adventure is normally higher than my ability to solve it. Yet, if anybody can point me definitively towards a game engine for the Pocket PC I’d be grateful.
