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Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe - Lots of classic 1980s computer software for sale/trade, specializing in Infocom text adventures. Monthly collector's column, waiting list, links to other software collectors' pages.
-- http://www.if-legends.org/~yois/ Related: games;
Annotated Bibliography of Interactive Fiction Scholarship - Ranked and annotated items, covering academic articles, fan or community web sites, influential amateur articles, and references to text adventures in mainstream literature. Focuses on the cultural and literary significance of text adventures.
-- http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/bibliography/ Related: games;
How Adventure Games Age - While graphic adventure games tend to look very dated very quickly, text adventures still seem fresh a decade after they were written. By Stephen Granade.
-- http://www.brasslantern.org/editorials/gamesage.html Games: Video Games: Adventure
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - The complete text of Washington Irving's classic history.
-- http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/html/bville/bonneville.html Arts: Literature: World Literature: American: 19th Century: Irving, Washington: Works
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle - Full text of Pyle's Robin Hood tale.
-- http://pyle.thefreelibrary.com/The-Merry-Adventures-of-Robin-Hood Society: Folklore: Literature: Tales: Legends: Robin Hood: Literature
The Adventures of Pinocchio - E-text of the story by C. Collodi.
-- http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/C_Collodi/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio/ Arts: Literature: Children's: Online Books
The Lost World - An account of the original Lost World by Conan Doyle in text and film, as well as the further adventures of Professor Challenger.
-- http://silentmoviemonsters.tripod.com/TheLostWorld Arts: Literature: Authors: D: Doyle, Arthur Conan: Works
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Online chapter indexed hypertext of the book, with a downloadable text version.
-- http://www.literatureproject.com/tom-sawyer/index.htm Arts: Literature: World Literature: American: 19th Century: Twain, Mark: Works: Novels: Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Infocom Games Playable Online - Service to play Infocom text adventures online via telnet.
-- http://infocom.elsewhere.org/ Games: Video Games: Developers and Publishers: I: Infocom: Titles
Oz Family Ezine - Compelling drama as you follow the adventures of young Sarah in a weekly serial story. [Text editor is needed]
-- http://www.ozfamilyezine.com/ Home: Family: Publications
Roleplayer: The GURPS Magazine
- An online archive of articles, adventures, and features from the sadly out-of-print SJ Games magazine/newsletter devoted entirely to GURPS. The complete contents of the magazine's paper run is present.
-- http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/Roleplayer Games: Roleplaying: Genres: Universal: GURPS
The Adventures of Ulysses, Charles Lamb, 1808 - Full online text.
-- http://www.eldritchpress.org/cml/au.html Arts: Literature: Authors: L: Lamb, Charles
The Literature Page: The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi - Translated by Carol Della Chiesa. Text in html format for online reading. Readers may place up to 10 books on a "bookshelf" which uses cookies to mark the last page read.
-- http://www.literaturepage.com/read/pinocchio.html Arts: Literature: Authors: L: Lorenzini, Carlo
Gemstorm - The episodic adventures of Gemstorm a Ranger on a pre-industrial fantasy world. Using both text, original artwork and comic panels, Gemstorm makes her way south to a legendary Inn and meets a variety of exotic species and individuals.
-- http://www.angelfire.com/games5/gemstorm/index.html Games: Roleplaying: Humor: Comics
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Plain text file at Project Gutenberg.
-- http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/561 Arts: Literature: Authors: D: Defoe, Daniel: Works: Robinson Crusoe
The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan - E-text, from Page by Page Books.
-- http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/William_Makepeace_Thackeray/The_Tremendous_Adventures_of_Major_Gahagan/ Arts: Literature: World Literature: British: 19th Century: Thackeray, William Makepeace: Works
Life and Adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone - Project Gutenberg e-text of the biography by John Filson.
-- http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/909 Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: People: Boone, Daniel
Tiny Toon Adventures Fan Fiction Reference Guide - Text files.
-- ftp://ftp.acmelabs.com/pub/tta-fanfic/guide.txt Arts: Animation: Cartoons: Titles: T: Tiny Toon Adventures: Fan Works: Fan Fiction
Nestvold, Ruth: The use of the second person in electronic fiction - Essay discussing second person narration in hypertext fiction and text adventures. First presented at the IALS conference in Freiburg in 1997.
-- http://www.ruthnestvold.com/2ndper.htm Arts: Literature: Reviews and Criticism: Theory: Hypertext
Amiga Inform - Homepage of the Amiga port of Inform, a compiler to create text adventures in the Z-Machine format.
-- http://www.missingpiece.com/inform/amiga.html Computers: Systems: Amiga: Software: Development