You should be able to find some of the missing adult games at
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Thank you very much. I don’t think anybody who’s active on the wiki currently really wants to look at pornographic games. Anyone can create an account and edit pages. There’s a helpful data entry form to make it easy (there are tick boxes for Parser, Choice etc). Would you be willing to do that?
For games that you find, it would be useful to add links too. For games you can’t find you can add [[Category:Missing works]] to the main article text.
Near as I can tell many of the Star Trek adult games are lost; there may be an aif archive I haven’t checked, we’ll see.
As much as I’m tempted to shed a tear for the loss of media…
I’ll see if there’s anything else on this list I can deal with.
EDIT:
Spoke too soon, clearly. Is it worth adding new pages for works without them?
Perhaps someday I’ll hold my nose and map these sites, cataloguing the content (as noted in past, too many early AIF are, well, product of young frustrated males, with all the questionable, if not even very questionable content the young’uns can generate…) but I leave to others the final work of introducing the (presumably few) missing “items” in the db…
perplexed regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
There are only 80 games left, thanks largely to investigate work by @Warrigal (and also by a new wiki user Ybosde). What’s left is all pornographic.
The things I do for archive completeness. I managed to find many of the remainder in the ‘AIF Motherlode’ dump posted here some time back and am updating pages.
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Cool. If there’s any way of linking to the game files I suppose that would be good too. Maybe it should be uploaded to the IF Archive if it hasn’t already.
This was the thread, I don’t think it ever found that forever home. Some of the TADS games do have images so that poses certain concerns, on top of the large filesizes.
FWIW, that’s me (as in ybosde, not the pornographic leftovers).
-Steve
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I think we’ve gone just about as far as we can. There are just four games left (two ADRIFT 5 and two TADS 2) and those games don’t have any known downloads.
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I found a download link for one of the two ADRIFT games, so now there are three left. I’d be surprised if any of the remaining games are anything other than “Parser”.
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Likewise, I only ended up finding one game in this entire process that was choice-based. The author of two of those three missing games has apparently removed them from distribution, so I expect those might be properly lost, not sure about the third.
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I’ve managed to track down a walkthrough for the remaining ADRIFT game which confirms it is/was “Parser” only (albeit with graphics).
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This is great progress. The wiki does have a data entry form for game pages, but really it’s very flexible about what you can add to each page. If you’ve found downloads, walkthroughs, reviews etc then feel free to add links to those.
There are only two games left. These are both TADS 2 games written by Timberwulf. The first of these is Reflections, which was an entry in A. Bomire’s 2004 Mini-Comp. This was withdrawn by the author on 30 August 2004.
The other game is Netherworld: The Depths of Kavonar. This is a unique title and a Google search only found this term on IFWiki, so I assume that the author withdrew this one as well.
As these are TADS 2 games, I’m going to take a gamble, guess that they were parser games and mark them accordingly. As the games are no longer available, who really cares if this is right or wrong?
EDIT: 0 left to do.
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Whew! Good stuff. If I find a review or walkthrough of either of those I’ll check. I’ll see about adding what links I can to game pages.
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Ha! I bet nobody will care and I bet you are right that they were parser, but let’s add an explanatory note to the two pages.
Well done everybody! The end of the “Probably Parser” era, a lot sooner than expected!
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