Gary McGath
Autor de Computes Guide to Adventure Games
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: A friend took this in Berlin, Germany. I can't remember which one. That's a piece of the Berlin Wall behind me.
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1951
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Manchester, NH, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New Hampshire, USA
- Educación
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Purdue University - Ocupaciones
- Software engineer
freelance writer
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También Puede Gustarte
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- Obras
- 13
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 31
- Popularidad
- #440,253
- Valoración
- 4.7
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 3
As was more common in the 80's, it's sort of a mix-n-match of things, a description of what adventure games are, a guide for players on how to keep track of maps and items while playing, and finally actual code for one in multiple versions of BASIC (including different fonts characteristic of the different computers) and reviews of some then-popular adventure games.
Every time I flip through it, though, I do want to get back into playing text adventures, especially Zork and Raaka-Tu (which I never finished, having gotten stuck with the gargoyle while playing on then-current TRS-80 computers at school).… (más)