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

zork Things I miss: being eaten by a grue Jason Weisberger

law Vermont man charged with drunk driving in Canada thought he was in U.S. Rob Beschizza

Games Microsoft now owns Infocom and its interaction fiction classics Rob Beschizza

video games Square Enix added an AI-powered text parser to an old-school adventure game. Reactions are mixed Grant St. Clair

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

Tips for buying Soviet cameras Rob Beschizza

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

computer science The history of a Zorklike programming interpreter is a tale of language, art, code and literature Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Listen up: you really owe it to yourself to read 15 Vlad Taltos novels, seriously Cory Doctorow

Games Zork machine implemented in hardware Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Wikipedia as a Zork-style text-adventure Cory Doctorow

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

Sex Read The Joy of Cybersex, an online sex guide circa 1993 Laura Hudson

offworld A chance to give back to a quirky, legendary game developer Leigh Alexander

offworld Astonishing comics that 'save your game' when you turn the page Laura Hudson