It’s easy to dismiss text adventures as the relics of a bygone age. They served a purpose when art and animation were too memory-intensive for the computers of the day. They were popular with a ...

Gather ’round, kids, and listen to my tale of the computer games of years gone by. Those without any kind of newfangled “graphics” or flashy “UI.” If you had a Commodore 64 or Apple when you were ...

Enterprising gamers are formatting vintage text-based adventure games such as Zork I, II and III for the Kindle and other dedicated e-readers. "Many people cut their teeth on the imagination-fueled ...

Easy-to-use tools and indie game markets help ’80s-style interactive fiction draw in new developers and new players like never before. Indie games are often noted for their simplistic graphics, but ...

Open iPhone. Go to App Store. Download Frotz. The classic text adventures from Infocom made us all learn the shortest possible way to write responses, and this brevity of input seems perfectly suited ...

Jason Scott's first documentary in 2005 was about bulletin board systems (BBSs), which were in a sense the PC world's parallel evolution of the early Internet. This documentary, really more a ...

Not every game from a major developer is a major one, as seen in these Little-Known Adventure Games From Famous Developers.

“Wikipedia: The Text Adventure” by Kevan Davis (all screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) You are standing in a crowdsourced world with millions of destinations. You can take several directions ...

Wikipedia as a classic text adventure: this “game” now exists, and it’s thanks to a London developer who figured out a clever way to interpret the gushing fountain of data that is Wikipedia’s API. The ...

We've seen people turn neural networks to almost everything from drafting pickup lines to a new Harry Potter chapter, but it turns out classic text adventure games may be one of the best fits for AI ...

Long before computer animation and virtual reality, people were creating virtual worlds in a more traditional way: text. And some of the most vibrant and complete virtual worlds existed in a quirky ...