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The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

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191 points SeenNotHeard | 2 comments | 27 Jun 25 17:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ThinkingGuy ◴[30 Jun 25 14:25 UTC] No.44423721[source]▶
I was there in the 1980s; writing your own Infocom-style text adventure games was a common project among my peers. There are probably lots of unfinished (or even finished-but-unshared) games out there on old floppy disks in closets.

I have a couple of my own, now archived on my home server.

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1. frost_knight ◴[30 Jun 25 14:35 UTC] No.44423873[source]▶
Willing to share them?
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2. ThinkingGuy ◴[30 Jun 25 21:35 UTC] No.44428149[source]▶
I would be, if they weren't so embarrassingly bad!