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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64

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115 points ibobev | 2 comments | 08 Sep 25 12:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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georgeecollins ◴[08 Sep 25 17:03 UTC] No.45170781[source]▶
I think I could add some great entries to this website! When I started at Activision I went through a bunch of old Infocom (Zork/ Planetfall) docs including design docs for games they never made. It taught me a lot.

And then I have my own. I might even still have a cartridge for Halo for the Nintendo DS. It was really pretty nice, but Bungie was like: No way!

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1. brightball ◴[08 Sep 25 17:44 UTC] No.45171364[source]▶
I wonder how entertaining the old style text games would be with modern AI to help interpret actions that people try to make.
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2. RyanOD ◴[09 Sep 25 00:03 UTC] No.45175742[source]▶
That's a good question. I wonder if part of the charm of the Infocom games was the limited vocabulary. Sometimes it was frustrating, but other times just trying to figure out the correct way to communicate with the game was part of the fun.