Interactive fiction facts for kids

Interactive Fiction, usually abbreviated as IF, is a kind of computer game. In interactive fiction, the player types words with their keyboard, as an instruction to the main character of a story. One instruction might be:

take lamp

Which would make the main character pick up a lamp.

Images for kids

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  Zork I is one of the first interactive fiction games, as well as being one of the first commercially sold. It is one of the most famous interactive fiction games. Here it is portrayed running on Gargoyle, a modern interpreter.

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  Mystery House for the Apple II was the first adventure game to use graphics in the early home computer era.

See also

In Spanish: Aventura conversacional para niños