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