Infocom - The Lurking Horror (The Dream)

NOTE - Sorry for the difficulty reading the wording, it's the best quality I could get. Consider pausing the video if you're interested in reading the text.

The Lurking Horror is one of the most atmospheric text adventures there is, and one of the biggest contributers is the sound bytes it uses along with the text to provide ambiance.

It's not as elaborately written as A Mind Forever Voyaging perhaps, but it's got some great puzzles and is quite effective at scaring the crap out of you if you happen to play it at night.
A good story (like most Infocom text adventures) is present as well.

Trying to rescue what remains of your late term paper at GUE Tech, things start getting a lot weirder as you find yourself drawn into something sinister and bizarre.
Good campy stuff.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Infocom
• Text
• Adventure
• Lurking
• Game

[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.

[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.

[Maximusmadrica]

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

[laxzzzen]

Aren't there websites you can play this on?

[CaliforniaTD]

4:07.

HOLEE SHIIIT

[TheChosen90]

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

[KristinaTVfan]

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