Free your buddy

Written by Ben on November 23rd, 2007 and posted in Game News
Tags : adventure, advergame, web games

Free Your Buddy is an interactive video game based on the old text adventure computer games from the eighties. Using a messenger window people communicate with a Buddy character trapped inside an old computer. The object of the game is to use the messenger window to help Buddy find a way out. In addition to the game play commands there are hidden responses people must discover on their own.

Clearly this is an advergame for msn messenger, but it’s actually surprisingly enjoyable. I’m sorry to say I am too young to have played text adventures, and trying them now they’re just too dry for me to get any interest. Adding the video footage to respond to your commands adds just enough to hold my interest.

With some objects Buddy gives you hints as to what to do (maybe I should boil the kettle) and other times you have to guess. I think it’s a pretty good intro to text adventures.

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