Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work

• lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only ASCII art was available, then Windows 95 itself wouldn’t have been possible, being a graphical OS. Games in the 70s and 80s had non-ascii graphics.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      in 95 there were a lot of crappy ascii art games bcz there wasn’t anything better technologically

      i mean i still have my old 3.5 and 5.25 floppy collection of sierra games published in DOS, pre-windows (since you obviously weren’t around then), that doesn’t use any ascii art. you’re the one throwing out wild anachronisms to make a point you don’t have.

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    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Graphical video games predate ASCII.

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    • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available

      Nowhere did I ever imply that ascii art was the only thing available

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re seriously losing the plot.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  windows 3.1 was first widespread used version of windows. But DOS games still had graphics. Nethack is a great game that is simple enough to learn, but you have to die 1000 times to actually learn.

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