50 Years of Text Games
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1979: The Cave of Time
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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Mar 4
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1978: Pirate Adventure
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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Feb 25
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1977: Zork
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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Feb 18
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1976: Adventure
How a caver discovered Dungeons & Dragons and accidentally inspired the computer gaming industry.
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Feb 11
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1975: dnd
How a rowdy band of dungeon crawlers took over a groundbreaking educational network and invented the computer roleplaying game.
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Feb 4
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1974: Super Star Trek
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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Jan 28
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1973: Hunt the Wumpus
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Jan 21
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1972: ROCKET
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Jan 14
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1971: The Oregon Trail
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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Jan 7
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Launching Thursday
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Jan 5
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50 Years of Text Games
A 2021 Journey from Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon
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Jan 1
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Jan 1
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