Bored? Hunkering for some retro text game goodness?

If you don’t know exactly what a Commodore64 is, or don’t recognize any of the game names below, you may want to skip this post.

Use whatever handy-dandy internet messenger you want and login to AIM. (yeah, I know, AIM sucks blah blah). Add to your friends Infocombot, Infocombot2, and Infocombot3. Send any of them a message, and choose your own Adventure!

Welcome to Waxy.org’s InfocomBot… If you get delays, try InfocomBot or Infocombot3 instead! For help and
more info, go to http://waxy.org/projects/ifbot

Type a game to play:
adventure, deadline, enchanter, hitchhikers_guide,
leather_goddesses, ludicorp, lurking_horror, planetfall, quake,
shade, sherlock, wishbringer, zork1, zork2, zork3

(I didn’t know there was a Quake text adventure!)