Action Castle

Action Castle is an ongoing series of Game Show episodes where a host, typically Tony Sindelar, runs a Parsely Games text adventure game with a number of players.

Gameplay
The host acts the part of the a text adventure game parser, presumably running on 1980s era personal computer, reading out the text describing the current location the players find themselves in, as well as the exits to other locations in the game. The order of play is typically determined by the host using www.random.org. On their turn, each player will describe the action they wish to take (e.g. "go north", "take shovel"), without consultation with any of the other players, and certainly without consulting the parser/host. Like Infocom text adventure parsers, the host/parser will provide their opinions on a player's proposed actions. Parsely Games generally allow for up to 3 saved game slots, and saving to a floppy disk is appropriately simulated by spending several seconds singing the "Save Game" song.

Episode List
The canonical list of Action Castle Episodes