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The World of Fun [ZZT]
In this very bizarre adventure game, the World of Fun, a world composed of a giant theme park, has been overrun by evil creatures. The creatures have turned all of the fun rides into instruments of destruction and torture. You are, of course, the proverbial "chosen one" who needs to save the world and make it fun again.
Yeah, like I said, bizarre. Anyway, the game is composed entirely of ANSI graphics, which just adds to the fun.
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Download ZZT (external link, required to run The World of Fun)
ZZT is a DOS-based game creation system, so MS-DOS 6 or better is required to run this game. It works fine in DOSBox, too, for those of us who have moved past the 80's and early 90's. It may run in some versions of Windows, but no guarantees there. You will need the ZZT game creation system, linked above, to run The World of Fun.
About the World of Fun
Wow. I had forgotten that this one even existed. In fact, when I rediscovered it recently I nearly attributed it to some other Jeff Hanson, but I found some fingerprints that prove my guilt in the matter.
It's a very strange little adventure game I made with the popular ZZT game creation system back in 1993, during or shortly after my first summer working at a theme park in northern NH. The whole theme park experience had obviously overtaken (damaged?) my impressionable young brain, since this game is set in a world entirely comprised of rides, fun houses, and such. I would like to think that it was a melancholy tribute to period of time that I knew I could never get back. In fact, I would like you to think that too, so let's just go with it.
This one comes complete with jokes only a 15-year-old me could find funny, an unintentionally ironic title, and just about every adventure game cliche known to man.