Is Text-Based Game still a good idea?

Question

I found an old game from 1987 named "The Lurking Horror". It use nothing but text, and with a lot of possibilities; players input some line of texts to move forward into the game
I find this game brilliant, but for times like this where games focuses on graphics, etc, will this text-based game make a good project?

As a beginner, some suggestions from experts will be highly appreciated

Answer 1

A real gamer will appreciate a good text based game rather than a beautiful graphics one but bad game based ^^
And it would be better practice to focus to game coding basis, than to self disperse by learning at same time the necessarly big basis of a GUI :P

Answer 2

What's make you think it's not.
I still use console4pacman on my terminal.
And it's awesome.

Answer 3

@Steff Yeah! Those Noobs but there are many who would really appreciate that.
Really, I mean really as we don't see such stuff so often.

Answer 4

because people nowadays appreciate graphic-based game like Final Fantasy, Skyrim or something like that.
and I guess people be like "the hell man, a game with only texts? are we still in 1980's?" sorta like that :v

Answer 5

It'll be a long journey to learn and practice the game coding basis, but I guess that will be an interesting one.

best of luck to everyone :)