I love playing older games, especially interactive fiction. They require thought, timing and a bit of skill. Unfortunately, newer games require an awful lot on how fast you can press buttons. That can be entertaining, but not always what I’d want from a game.

I’ve been looking at the IF wiki and considering digging out my old ‘The Infocom Collections: The Sci-Fi Collection’ CD and playing Stationfall again (even though I’ll have to use DOSBox to play it). I’m not entirely certain if I ever finished it, though I do remember it getting fairly difficult. I know I never completed the prequel, Planetfall. I think the only IF game I’ve actually completed has been Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Interactive fiction is cool… you just can’t do that sort of thing with a graphical game.