Infocom - The Lurking Horror (The Dream)

[CaliforniaTD]

4:07.

HOLEE SHIIIT

[Maximusmadrica]

I can read it when I add "&fmt=18", I was planning on making a video with me playing Stationfall.

[KristinaTVfan]

I downloaded this game but cant get it to work!! -_-

[TheChosen90]

Download a dosbox. Thats a sure way to get these things to work.

[BobLarrabee]

You don't need Dosbox, just download Frotz, WinFrotz, or any other Inform interpreter program. You can even run it from the original interpreter program, as long as you have ansi.sys loaded.

[laxzzzen]

Aren't there websites you can play this on?

[mocirne]

This is great, I remember playing this game as a kid and messing with the microwave for the sole purpose of infuriating the hungry hacker with my less-than-adequate culinary skills. I agree with you about A Mind Forever Voyaging being better written (with Trinity a close second), although that was more story than plot oriented. Thanks for the walkthrough.

[BloodPigggy]

A Mind Forever Voyaging was more story oriented, but I always admire TLH and other games like Planetfall for their wonderful puzzles.

[mocirne]

Whoops, I meant puzzle-oriented instead of plot-oriented... my above comment didn't make sense, lol.

[BloodPigggy]

Really? AMFV? I always saw it as more of an exploration game that required you to slowly flesh out the plot on your own. Those tasks you had to record and what followed after always seemed like very light puzzles.

[mocirne]

Yeah, what that last sentence should have been was "I agree with you about A Mind Forever Voyaging being better written (with Trinity a close second), although AMFV was more story than puzzle-oriented." The best part of it, as you said, was exploring the different decades and watching society slowly decay as you proceed further into the future, watching the subtle changes of the first few decades profoundly affect the future. Brilliant game that was.

[BloodPigggy]

Ah right. That was confusing for a bit sorry.

[boilerplate]

Didn't we talk about this once? I figured you'd get around to doing it.

Amazing game. Me and my best friend played this on my C64 back in the late 80s. I can remember writing down the times we tried to cook the sushi at in the microwave for the hacker. Oh god, what a riot that game was. Demon summonings, feral children living in the basement, vampires, killer maintenance men.

Bad ass story. I think today's gamers should be forced to play this.

[BloodPigggy]

Yeah, The Lurking Horror is great, I just always had a problem with its text parser though, it was rather confusing.

Killer maintenance men seems to be a reoccurring theme in adventure games, ever play I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream?