50 Years of Text Games
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A middle-aged lawyer lets his kids Choose Their Own Adventure for their bedtime story, planting the seeds for a publishing phenomenon “as contagious as…
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The story of the husband and wife team who founded the first successful computer game studio—a year before Ken and Roberta Williams founded theirs.
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When four MIT hackers decide they can make a better Adventure, they start building a game that will still be topping bestseller charts eight years late…
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How a caver discovered Dungeons & Dragons and accidentally inspired the computer gaming industry.
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How a rowdy band of dungeon crawlers took over a groundbreaking educational network and invented the computer roleplaying game.
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When a high school sophomore’s favorite TV show is cancelled, he sets out on a determined quest to recreate it on a computer—even though he has no way …
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In the midst of the cold but snowless Minnesota December of 1971, a student teacher named Don Rawitsch wheeled a bulky teletypewriter into his 8th grad…
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A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
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