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  • Oregon Trail The wonderful "50 Years of Text Games" newsletter is becoming a book Thom Dunn
  • text adventures 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
  • text games A look back at 1982's text adventure of The Hobbit Thom Dunn
  • dungeons and ragons Play "Dungeons and Directories" game in your file browser David Pescovitz
  • zork Read this excellent article about the making of Zork, the iconic 1977 text adventure Mark Frauenfelder
  • velvet revolution You can now play the unauthorized Indiana Jones video game created by Czechoslovak protestors in the 80s Thom Dunn
  • IF I played this AI-generated text adventure as the Mandalorian and here's what happened John Struan
  • branching narrative Read the source code for every classic Infocom text-adventure game! Cory Doctorow
  • text adventures Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror "exquisite corpse" text adventure that's a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead Cory Doctorow
  • text adventures The Occult Defence Agency Budgeting Simulator: a text adventure that pits monster-slaying against austerity Cory Doctorow
  • text adventures Play a free text adventure game using Apple Shortcuts David Pescovitz
  • generation ships Seedship: a text-adventure generation-ship game Cory Doctorow
  • twisty little circuit traces Zork machine implemented in hardware Cory Doctorow
  • IF Curious firsts from 1970s text adventures Rob Beschizza
  • get lamp Dial-a-Grue: play Zork with nothing but an old phone Cory Doctorow
  • slitherio If Slither.io was a text adventure Rob Beschizza
  • IF Interactive fiction revival? Rob Beschizza
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