Counterfeit Monkey is a text adventure. To be specific, it's a parser game—one of those where you type in commands to tell ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just got hopelessly lost in a bizarre new text adventure game, but for once it wasn’t entirely my fault. That’s because the game, appropriately named GPT Adventure, is generated as I play by a ...

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 ...

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 ...

James Introcaso, one of the designers of the Dungeons & Dragons adventure Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, got the conversation started with a post on his Worldbuilder blog titled ‘We Can Do Better Than Boxed ...

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 ...

Google's string of Easter eggs hidden within Search have proved its developers love gaming. And its latest pays tribute to a classic type of game played only with text. Hidden inside Google's search ...