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Interactive Fiction Games Could Make A Comeback With This E-reader Handheld Console

retrododo.com Interactive Fiction Games Could Make A Comeback With This E-reader Handheld Console

Games have come a long way since the days of consoles like the ZX Spectrum, but fantasy lovers still crave interactive fiction games like The Hobbit for an alternative kind of adventure where the narrative is the main driving force. To be honest, gaming and reading have always gone hand-in-hand,

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4w ago

Interactive Fiction Games Could Make A Comeback With This E-reader Handheld Console

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Interactive Fiction to make a comeback? What? Visual novels never went anywhere.
- I'm assuming interactive fiction means more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure books or Fighting Fantasy game books.
  Article mentions text adventures as well, but old school like Zork and such wouldn't work well without a keyboard. Maybe more the nineties era Gabriel Knight and Beneath a Steel Sky,but that would suffer from a black and white screen.
  
  I do kind of wish it had a full keyboard like the old kindle did. Tons of great IF text adventures that would almost seamlessly transfer to this format.