What Would Victorian Era Computer Games Be Like?

Monday 18 February 2013

Let us consider what if Charles Babbage had completed his Analytical Engine, ushering in the computer age somewhat earlier than in reality.

What would games have been like on it, considering that there would be no screens?

This article by Austin Sirkin proposes they would have been text games, printed out, much in the way of Zork and the old text based classics.

He even wrote a game, Trouble in the Workshop, which is an old style text based adventure with a decidedly steampunk feel, the type that may have been played on the Analytical Engine.

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