As you might be able to tell from my other posts I’ve been a big fan of the old school text adventure games which dominated the gaming industry back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Recently I stumbled across this book while reading an excellent new Adventure Game magazine called “The Classic Adventurer“. In the second issue, there was a write up on a new book called Twilight Inventory.
Twilight Inventory is a collection of reviews of forgotten text adventure games from the 1990s. Created by enthusiastic amateurs, during the last days of the 8-bit computers, these home-grown titles abandoned the flashy graphics of commercial arcade game experiences, concentrating instead on devious puzzles, descriptive text and exciting stories.
Taking inspiration from folklore, legends, films and books, these were games with tales and settings unvisited in mainstream titles both back then and now. The features contemporary reviews and additional background information, this book is designed to give the reader a flavour of the small, but vibrant and flourishing, British adventure game scene of the early 1990s.
When companies such as Zenobi Software, Compass, River, Tartan and FSF Adventures, kept a loyal community supplied with unique experiences, delivered through the postal system in a protective Jiffy bag.
For a short time, the PDF version is free for download, so I’d suggest you take a look.
