“No intellegent life was discovered when Pioneer 1 landed here… Something else must have caused the destruction of this ancient civilization. What happened on Ragol in the past?”
ZZT magazines are one of my favorite weird internet artifacts and even I barely know them outside of randomly seeing examples shared like this.
Plus they are most so hyper specific to a very particular time and place and niche that I can’t imagine trying to explain them to folks who are unfamiliar with them.
Like: back in the ‘90s people used to create games with a game editor that were collections of other games, articles written either in text boxes or as text in standalone game boards, jokes, etc. In order to check everything out you’d maneuver your player (a little smiley face) from stage to stage. They called them magazines because… I guess that was the closest comparison anybody was able to make? Also this was basically all done by and for a relatively small audience and the game and editor that was used to do this was created by Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, known now as the company behind Fortnite.
Ahoy! The name’s Simon. I’m the co-founder of D-Pad Studio and creator of the game Owlboy and upcoming titles. I specialize in Pixel-Art, particularly backgrounds and animations, though I’m no stranger to creating digital paintings, design work and a few disturbingly popular memes…
These are all (obviously) great but having recently played a bit of Chip N Dale’s Rescue Rangers and being reminded of how enjoyable it is I’d really love to play a sequel or remake that looks like this.
![worldsofzzt:
“Source
Flame Games Mag 1 by Nydark (1998)
Published by: Flame Games
[FLAME1.ZZT] - “Flame Mag #1 *Start*”
Play this world in your browser
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