Get Lamp

[Robert]

I am sure some of you are of the correct age and persuasion that knowledge of this, if you were not already aware of it, will have the exact same effect on you as it did on me earlier today:

http://www.getlamp.com/

I think I actually yelped aloud. At work.

[Baxter]

Oh snap! I am ALL over this right now. Text adventures have been my favorite things in the world since forever, despite being absolute balls at them. If only people would recognize their clear superiority...

[Robert]

I will be begging begging begging for this for my birthday, because I don't have anywhere near $45 to shell out right now (we're moving in two weeks and have to come up with mad stacks of cash, whereas as of yesterday we had $9.02 in the bank).

[Baxter]

Oof, yeah, the price means I'll have to hold off as well, actually. But the idea that this even exists makes me happy enough...and means that this weekend will be filled with adventuring and map-making.
Hope the move goes alright, by the way!

[Robert]

we're actually ahead of schedule this time, so things are looking decent for this one...

[Phillip]

text adventures??? i must be of the wrong generation.

[Robert]

Actually, you're exactly the right one--Colossal Cave (aka Adventure) debuted, if memory serves, in 1976. On a mainframe.

[Phillip]

ack. i would not have been drawn to that in those days - i was more interested in girls and the beach and the saxophone.

[Robert]

Phillip wrote: "ack. i would not have been drawn to that in those days - i was more interested in girls and the beach and the saxophone."

Aha, THAT was my problem...!

[Phillip]

;)

[Robert]

ORDERED!

[Robert]

oh, shit.

THEY FOUND THE CAVE. THE REAL CAVE FROM "ADVENTURE".