Archive - 50 Years of Text Games

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Jun 28

Would you like a hint?

Jun 21

The doomed text game from a lauded sci-fi writer with ambitions too big for its disks...

Jun 16

The first of three mystery items for the Ultimate Collector's Edition is announced...

Jun 14

Jun 8

The 50 Years of Text Games book is now live on Kickstarter! Help crowdfund a gorgeous book about the long strange history of interactive fiction.

Jun 7

Jun 1

May 23

The quest for the earliest transcript of a computer game uncovers a surprisingly complex computer strategy game from the 1950s.

May 10

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Apr 26

One of the first complex computer games, a military wargame called HUTSPIEL (1955), was created by a historian, Dr. Dorothy K. Clark.

Jan 26

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