As you get older what games do you keep returning to?

[Qonundrum]

Good, because every once in a while I'll still fire up one of the old text adventure games, like Zork or something (before they added animation). Back in the day I was a huge fan of those Infocom games. I had a PC (one of the old 360 PCs that ran DOS) which had the game, and beside it I had a MacIntosh which had this weird thing called a mouse and you could draw lines and stuff! I would play the game on the PC while mapping out the different rooms in the game on the MAC.

The old days. LOL

Och, the text games were GREAT! Not always easy since typing in "east" versus "right" had the game going "Sorry, I do not understand" and some games were as inconsistent as all heck... but they allowed one to imagine fantastic various vistas and situations. Even 8-bit pixelated games still allowed some imagination to be used. 16-bit onward, I recall mostly people going goo-goo eyes over how pretty everything increasingly looked. And everything did look good. It just wasn't the same.

Then again, I adored the Commodore Amiga but that was mostly for the preemptive multitasking and different applications using different resolutions that were slid up and down without the sort of screen blanking computers to this day use as PC/Mac graphics cards weren't designed with any... panache. But that's Jay Miner and his engineering talents for ya... If only they licensed Digital Research's GEM in the way the Atari ST had. And, yes, I loved the games. But there was a palpable sense of adventure that's been lacking with any shoot'em'up.