mjhayes
Niagara Falls, NYTop 100 Reviewer
Member since September 16, 2015
Last visited March 30, 2018
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I was a lurker on the IF scene when I was in college in the '90s. I had "gone retro" on the videogame scene and was not interested in next-gen games of the day, and so I tried out old computer games until I had stumbled upon Zork. When I had asked whether Zork had been ported to Unix-based systems, somebody pointed me to the IF archive, and I ended up spending many happy hours in the computer labs doing the computer game equivalent of reading a book.
To this day, I still play Anchorhead, which was a new release at the time. There were a lot of other pieces of IF that were otherwise well-written but were written for IF "gamers," slamming the player with one difficult puzzle after another throughout the whole course of the story. I have a lot to say about Anchorhead, which I will do in the appropriate forum.

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mjhayes's Play Lists
Played Games
Dunnet, by Ron SchnellShogun, by James Clavell, Dave Lebling
Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen
Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle
Kaged, by Ian Finley
Wish List
Bolivia By Night, by Aidan DoyleInvisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup)
Kaged, by Ian Finley
Map of Fahlstaff, by Ian Hinck
Final Selection, by Sam Gordon