50 Years of Text Games
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In the aftermath of a devastating election, a 1980s game designer starts to wonder if a game could be political.
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When the best-loved makers of text adventures met the best-loved sci-fi satirist of the decade, the result was an unforgettable classic of interactive …
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A young writer crosses paths with the designer of Zork, sparking a surprisingly experimental game where you experience reality from six unique perspect…
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Veronika Megler just wanted a part-time job while she finished her college degree. She didn't realize it would end with her writing one of the first co…
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In the early days of text games wild experiments flourished, like the forgotten series that pioneered the term "interactive fiction" where instead of t…
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The story of how dozens of British college students would stay up all night to adventure together in the game that would spawn a thousand sequels.
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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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