Adventures in Videoland (Rollercoaster)

August 5, 2018

Kay resurrects the very first video game that used a laserdisc: a type-in text adventure that ran on the Apple II. First you type in the game, then you type in the game!

Links:

• Adventures in Videoland in Creative Computing v8n1
• Adventures in Videoland in Big Computer Games
• Adventures in Videoland (Rollercoaster) playthrough
• IMDB: Rollercoaster (1977)
• Rotten Tomatoes: Rollercoaster
• Moby Games: Adventures in Videoland
• Moby Games: List of Dabid Lubar's games
• GitHub: Adventures In Videoland AKA Rollercoaster source code

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Infocom's Non-Interactive Non-Fiction

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