The text, the narrative and the machine: Digital textuality a text adventure games in 1980s Czechoslovakia

Abstract

The chapter describes and analyzes the local appropriation of the text adventure genre of computer games in the 1980s Czechoslovakia, stressing the interplay of global and local contexts and influences in the process of their production. It situates them within theory of interactive fiction and provides an account of the intertextual ties between games by 1980s Czechoslovak hobbyists.

Keywords

• computer games
• new media
• game studies
• interactive fiction
• text adventures