Oh look, another Sakura game!

I played Zork and at least part of Zork 2. And Hichhickers and my personal favorite, Trinity (because it's the only one I actually owned myself and could solve by myself).

Ohh, I got rid of all my Apple 2 stuff ages ago, don't remember everything but I did have Zork 1-3 and the Hitchhiker's Guide game... :(

So you kept the computer too? That was lucky! I can imagine keeping a few boxes of discs, but even if the discs still worked how would I even use them? :)

Don't worry, soon Steam will be 50% early access survival garbage, and 50% boobies... :)

Oh, like Choose Your Own Adventure or Fighting Fantasy books? There's a few of those on Steam now, too. Aha, here. :)

Hmm, unless I forgot something I think none of the Sakura games have voice acting, just the "music" or sound effects. And here's a spoiler - you don't need to buy any of their games, just check the screenshots in the community page, save your money. :) There's boobies on every screenshot, that's the whole game. :)

Oho, Italian Spiderman! :) I had no idea where that gif came from, then one day I watched that video and hmm, wait a minute, this scene looks familiar... Oh, it's that guy! :)

Well, the Sakura Dungeon game is an acutal dungeon crawling game, and the clicker thing is a clicker thing. If you like dungeon crawling or clicking, they are probably ok. :)

The rest are just lazy visual novels, i.e. a "story" where you keep hitting next to reach the next boobie picture. Search google for "boobies" and save your money. :)

Ouch, sounds like it turned you into a Pikachu! :)

Oops! :)

I think the Sakura games with shiny people have patches, and the ones with non-shiny people don't. Or something like that. :)

That's the spirit.

Oho, if I remember correctly that's where Zork came from, but I could just look it up and pretend I knew it all along... Aha, then I'll have to delete this message...

Did you ever try Hadean Lands? It looks interesting, but I haven't tried playing yet...

I think people make jokes with the Steam tagging feature, since useful tags like "30fps" aren't allowed any more. I think Valve only allow "positive" tags to encourage spending, and not to warn people about a bad port, or anything negative. :( You can find all sorts of random games tagged with "nudity" as well...

Don't feel bad, almost nobody plays that sort of game any more... :) I guess it's a pity, we can still read old books but it's too painful to play an old game... Nowadays even the text adventures need graphics... :)

If you thought the Sakura games were sub-par, try one of these... :)

I think the Sakura Dungeon game isn't too bad, as long as you don't expect too much. :) They are all just an excuse for boobie pictures...

At first I thought what a wasted opportunity, since as you say they could have made something campy and funny but... :( Apparently in these boobie games the text is irrelevant, people will buy them no matter how bad it is. I wonder if the people writing them feel bad, or if they just don't care.

Hmm, I never remember what's in my GOG library, which is a pity since there's a lot of games you can't get on Steam... Oh well... :)

I guess as long as people keep buying it, they will keep selling it... You'd think Winged Cloud would have mucked out that stall by now, though...

Feels like there were cat girls in their first game, but I just can't remember...

I think the problem is they didn't make ten different visual novels, they made one visual novel, ten different times... :)

It's all so lazy... Maybe they should consider a different genre, since they are obviously out of ideas. Boobie survival? Boobie open world? Boobie crafting? Boobie fps? Boobie tower defence? The sky's the limit! :)

I wonder if the artists feel bad making this junk, or if it's just a job. Obviously whoever does the writing is just punching a clock... Oh well. :)

Here's a spoiler: you don't have to read the video, but you might want to take a look... :)

Speaking of nostalgic stuff, I did play Thexder, but all I can remember is the Moonlight Sonata... :)

Hmmm, think I only played with TRS-80 machines in stores, never had one, or even knew anybody who had one. :( Oh well. :)

Hmmmm, not to be too picky, but I'd probably call these Sakura things Japanese-style games, or maybe cheap knockoffs or imitations, since the Winged Cloud developers aren't from Japan. :) If you check the publisher Sekai Project for example, some of their games are made in Japan, some aren't. I'm not sure it matters, but you never know. :)

There are a growing number of "real" Japanese visual novels on Steam, if you're looking for them specifically. I don't know if there's any curator or group or whatever to point them all out, but https://vndb.org/ is one place to check.

Hmm, the only Text Adventure I can recommend currently is Hadean Lands, for no reason at all... :) I haven't actually finished one myself in a very long time... :( Guess my text adventuring muscles atrophied, or something... :(

Oh, I almost forgot, if you're not allergic, there's a lot of games mentioned in a recent "RPS" feature here.

Ouch! :( I remember getting bored with a choose-your-own-adventure book and hunting for the good ending, could only blame myself though. :)

Hmmm, I suspect most of us could remember something our mothers "accidentally" did like that... :)

Oho, fancy! Guess videos of text adventures are a thing... :)

I seem to recall some of the last Infocom games had rudimentary graphics or pictures or something, but I think the writing was on the wall by that point... :(

Oho, interesting, I didn't know muds were still around, guess I'm about 30 years out of the loop though... :( Do you still telnet to them, or do they have fancy web pages or clients or something like that?

Perry Mason, eh? Sounds interesting, hmmm, search search... Was it this? Thought I kept up pretty well with Apple 2 games, but I never heard of that one. :( Fun to learn new stuff... :)

Hmmm, I never played The Lurking Horror, the name sounds familiar though. So I look at the mountain of unplayed crap in my Steam library, and reminisce about the days when I couldn't afford to buy every random thing...

Oho, speaking of old stuff, just last week I was trying to suggest someone try Planescape: Torment, since they love RPGs and reading fantasy stuff, and have a crap old computer. Looks like it's only $10 on GOG, too... But they don't have any internet at home!? My brain went blank, I didn't know what to say... :(

Yeah, probably... :)

Guess it would have made more sense in the old days, where someone got a magazine from an older brother or a cousin or something... Is there such a thing as a person who can't find boobies on the internet? :)

Hmm, no, I haven't heard of Mainland before, thank you for pointing it out! :) Hope I'll remember to try it this weekend, but my memory is pretty poor even for the games I buy... :(

I think Zork was great, but that doesn't really count since back then I thought everything was great... :) And if I ever got a game that turned out not to be great I played it anyway, since it was the only new game I had. :)

Now there's a pile of new bundles every week, you can get a hundred games today for less than the price of one back then... :)

Would it be a spoiler to say both? :) Probably, but nobody's reading this anyway... :)

Aha, the first game I bought was Zork for the Apple 2, feels like I've already mentioned that somewhere though...

Never had a C64, but I remember using one at school for a while. Oh well. :) Probably missed out on seeing hundreds of classic games, but I don't think I'd be able to revisit the fun with an emulator, since all I can remember about that machine is the painfully slow floppy drive... :(

Close enough I think... :) More reading required than for one of those Sakura blabla games, that's for sure... :) Fewer boobies, though.

Hmm, actually I think someone mentioned those, umm, aha, they mentioned something here, and I assumed it was that sort of thing but they never replied so I'm not sure... Oh well. :)