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Logic games in the past?!

Apr 14, 2018 3:16PM PDT

Today we see many video games with killings, violence ... It can damage mind of some people especially kids. But it's popular.
What about logic games? Something like this:
logicalgames.org
It's in the past? Is mind improvement bad trend?


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Post was last edited on April 14, 2018 3:21 PM PDT

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Sadly when folk top post a link like that
Apr 14, 2018 3:20PM PDT

They are promoting the site and attempting SEO. Almost all have been spam.

As such I disabled the link so we can continue your discussion.

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Ok
Apr 15, 2018 2:35PM PDT

As you command...

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There were some.
Apr 14, 2018 6:52PM PDT

Two from the same house were Rocky's Boots and Gertrude's Secrets, for different age groups. Both well written, the former was quit challenging. Maybe on the Wayback Machine. Had them on my Commodore 64.

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RE:Commodore 64
Apr 14, 2018 7:37PM PDT

Those were the days...life was much simpler then....

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Games
Apr 14, 2018 9:21PM PDT

Years ago my sister bought a game called myst.
It was a G rated game that was a puzzle.
Her young daughter and 2 or 3 of the neighborhood kids would gather around the pc and spend hours of try this or try that.
I don't know if they learned anything but it kept them busy and out of trouble and my sister was happy.

When they got tired of the thing I borrowed the game and spent a number of hours working my way through the different levels.

My introduction to gaming.

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Yeah, it was quite elaborate.
Apr 15, 2018 2:34AM PDT

Not my kind of fun, but attractive graphics. Had at least one follow-up.
A company called infocom was very popular, with dungeon games. Had to work your way through different challenges. I have a CD with their classics on it. Neat mazes to solve.
Remember "plugh". It will save you time in getting around.

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Plugh
Apr 15, 2018 9:44AM PDT

I don't think plugh applied to Myst.

As I recall it applied to a game called Adventure.

It was a text only game which at the time was fine since monitors were not designed to display graphics.

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Yep. played it on a Unix system at work,
Apr 15, 2018 12:08PM PDT

written in Fortran. Long time ago. Infocom also had a version.
Two grown men, talking about plugh. Get a life!!! Happy

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Reliving my youth.
Apr 15, 2018 12:30PM PDT

Where did all the years go?

I also played it at work on a RCA system.....high tech stuff at the time.

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Fortran? It's really violent!
Apr 15, 2018 2:40PM PDT

Today it's really in the past ...

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Fortran. It's super effective.
Apr 15, 2018 2:44PM PDT

I wrote Fortran long ago. Back then it was your go to language prior to C.

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Yep, it was the one.
Apr 15, 2018 3:57PM PDT

Fortran = formula translation, so it wasn't for all-text games, but someone did it. Cobol was for text and forms.

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The generations change
Apr 16, 2018 1:05AM PDT

The truth is the generations change and the kids born with technology find logic games boring what is interesting is if its 3d and rpg than its ok. Basically they need a personification and full experience in virtual world. While the older generations play games cause they like it, and even including logical.