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Text adventure

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A text adventure which people have to love love otherwise they're stupid.

A boring and unfunny videogame without graphics that was invented at least 100 years ago, and so if you're oldsk00l you have to love it to the death and despise everything else.

Oh, and you have to call it "Interactive Fiction" because only shallow, selfish, nazi catholic idiots call text adventures "text adventures" because they just don't get the joy of randomly being crushed by a sudden shower of huge stones in a forest.

Gamers of IF will usually run into flame wars with gamers of other genres, especially those of the action genre. The most prevalent insult used by them is 'dumb', referring to said gamers. Their main argument is that they, unlike gamers of other genres and sub-genres, don't have to rely on visual stimulation (yeah right).

A MUD is a multiplayer text adventure, just like IRC is a multiplayer notepad.

Beware! Some MUDs are full of furries who want to text into your pants!

[edit] LoRD

Legend of the Red Dragon (LoRD) is a text-based RPG wherein your character is hunting the legendary Red Dragon. This was popular on Citadels and continues in a few web-based versions. The game took course over the time period of weeks or even months edged out at around ten or fifteen minutes a day and was used primarily to get people to use one's Bulletin Board Service. It was one of the first truly "massively multiplayer online role-playing games," despite the fact most BBSes only allowed a few people to play at the same time. Geeks liked the game because they could flirt, have sex with, and marry members of the opposite sex, including one of two non-playing characters (NPCs): Seth Able the bard or Violet the bartender. Seth Able created the game, so I guess he liked the idea of geek girls fucking and marrying him. Who wouldn't? Violet wasn't anyone really, but she was totally hot and many people wanked over her IRL even though she was an NPC in the truest sense of the word. Awesome.

The game involves magic, fighting, and random events like finding a faerie pool, a tavern in the woods, or even getting a blowjob from a magical, disembodied head in a cave. You can purchase armor and weapons and put money in the bank. Different character types have different skills, like most RPGs. There were also various addons people could install -- mostly third-party -- that would add various events and things to the game, such as extra areas, drugs, new weapons and armor, or even senseless things like a graffiti wall.

This game rules and took up large parts of Voo's and Quasidan's adolescence.