What are the "best" IF freeware games out there?

[Stalkers]

After having played a lot of Infocom stuff on my trusty old C64 about 15
years
ago and later (about 8 years ago) on my Amiga 500 in the form of the
Lost Treasures, I rediscovered (I already stumbled over the GMD archive
in 1998, but I didn´t have web access at home back then) the GMD
archives. But there are SO MANY games to try! I already read
through a lot of SPAG reviews (well... all... but I guess having summer
break gives me a ton of free time). Games which stuck me of Infocom
quality (or better...) are Curses, Anchorhead and Jigsaw. Are there
other freeware games (which maybe haven´t been reviewed at SPAG)
which are really great?

Plus, I quite liked the "bite-sized" games - especially Enlightenment
and Zero Sum, which were both hillarous (although I had to
peek at the hints for a certain puzzle).

So, the question is - what are the stand-outs in those categories
(really
long and really short games)?

[sg...@my-deja.com]

In article <39CE914E...@gmx.de>,stal...@gmx.de wrote:
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> So, the question is - what are the stand-outs in those categories
> (really long and really short games)?

A quick cop-out reply using the opinions of people other than
myself ... take a look at "5-star rating" games at Baf's Guide and
Suzanne Britten's "The Best of IF"

http://www.wurb.com/if/index.html

http://www.igs.net/~tril/if/best/index.html

-- SteveG.

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[Aris Katsaris]

Stalkers <stal...@gmx.de> wrote in message news:39CE914E...@gmx.de...

>
> So, the question is - what are the stand-outs in those categories
> (really
> long and really short games)?

Really long and really short? I'm not that certain I can categorise them in
that
way, but a really long but great game is 'Delusions'. Other long games are
'Varicella', 'Worlds Apart'.

Some really short games are Photopia, Shrapnel, 9:05.

And in between, where length is concerned, are games like 'Spider In The
Web' and 'Edifice'.

All of the above are great. Hope they helped

Aris Katsaris

[Knight37]

Quoting stal...@gmx.de (Stalkers) from Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:42:06 GMT:

>So, the question is - what are the stand-outs in those categories
>(really long and really short games)?

Here's some games I enjoyed.

Short/Medium Games:
Photopia
Balances (if you liked Enchanter)
MST3K1 - (the Mystery Science Theater 3000 rendition of 'Detective')
Muse
Spider & Web (tangle.z5)
John's Fire Witch

Longer games:
So Far
Christminster
Theatre
SpiritWrak
Unnkulian series

Umm.. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head but there's a
lot of other great stuff out there.

--

Knight37

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