I want to put Ascii Sector into the same box as things like Elite or Frontier, as a space trading game with a heavy combat element. I give ASCIIPortal acceptable marks for playability, but you might enjoy it more if you can relate to the original game. And I never really took part in the Portal panic. I’m not much of a puzzle-game fan though I think my favorite puzzle adventure game was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but I never worked my way through Myst or its ilk.
Controls are easy and the game moves very quickly, even on decade-old hardware. The general premise is the same, although the format is distinctly different from the original Valve game. I mentioned ASCIIPortal off hand in a post over four years ago, while the Portal hubbub was trailing away. Going in alphabetical order, ASCIIPortal is first. What you see next is running in X under Arch. To be fair - and because these are all very good games - I promised to list them here, with the caveat that they will possibly require a graphical environment to get them moving. That doesn’t mean it’s not possible, it just means that K.Mandla is lazy and hasn’t researched it yet. (And even then, Dwarf Fortress would have required a framebuffer terminal emulator, if I remember right.) And yet, with the possible exception of Dwarf Fortress, I’ve never heard of a way to run them within an emulator let alone a classic virtual console. If you’re not familiar with them, all three games are unequivocally text-based. The answer I gave last week, and the answer I’ll repeat here, is yes.
I had a brief but interesting e-mail exchange with a longtime reader last week who asked if I was deliberately skirting games like Dwarf Fortress, Ascii Sector or ASCIIPortal.
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