books The wonderful "50 Years of Text Games" newsletter is becoming a book Thom Dunn

Games How thousands of players explored a shared virtual world a quarter of a million rooms big, using nothing but pencils, paper, and postage stamps Mark Frauenfelder

video games A look back at 1982's text adventure of The Hobbit Thom Dunn

text adventures Play "Dungeons and Directories" game in your file browser David Pescovitz

retro gaming Read this excellent article about the making of Zork, the iconic 1977 text adventure Mark Frauenfelder

video games You can now play the unauthorized Indiana Jones video game created by Czechoslovak protestors in the 80s Thom Dunn

AI I played this AI-generated text adventure as the Mandalorian and here's what happened John Struan

Copyfight Read the source code for every classic Infocom text-adventure game! Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror "exquisite corpse" text adventure that's a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Occult Defence Agency Budgeting Simulator: a text adventure that pits monster-slaying against austerity Cory Doctorow

Games Play a free text adventure game using Apple Shortcuts David Pescovitz

Games Seedship: a text-adventure generation-ship game Cory Doctorow

Games Zork machine implemented in hardware Cory Doctorow

Games Curious firsts from 1970s text adventures Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Dial-a-Grue: play Zork with nothing but an old phone Cory Doctorow

Games If Slither.io was a text adventure Rob Beschizza

rpgs What's new in tabletop gaming Gareth Branwyn

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television Here's an 80s version of the Mad Men intro Devin Nealy