GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary (2010)
- Original title
- Get Lamp
- Directed by
- Jason Scott
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary looks at text adventures and interactive fiction from the 1970s and 80s. Computer historian Jason Scott talks to many of the people who made these games.
educationalobservationalnostalgicdetailedreflectivepacedanalyticalretrospective
What happens
Get Lamp is a documentary about interactive fiction (a genre that includes text adventures) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott of textfiles.com. Scott conducted the interviews between February 2006 and February 2008, and the documentary was released in July 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
Trailer
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