Latinorum
A Commodore 64 game, as in literally written for that system in 1985, now rewritten in BASIC 2.0. The browser version seems to be running on an emulator. I don’t know if too closely critiquing the design and work of someone from that far back is particularly the way to go; it’s a text adventure set in high school, with a two word parser, a clear objective, and a few small puzzles. The game makes it clear enough what commands it accepts, so not too many problems; I think my biggest stumbling block was not knowing I had to OPEN the toolbox. Besides that… a couple of samey classrooms where objects are hidden in nondescript places. But really the game itself is fine for what it is–and after playing around with Adventuron, I’m a bit more curious about the design within two-word parser games–but what I really liked was the background story and also all the photos from that era, all detailed on its own web page. The game itself is a small artifact, but it’s all the context surrounding it, the little slice of history that’s being shared, that I found really neat.