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 ...

Open iPhone. Go to App Store. Download Frotz. The classic text adventures from Infocom made us all learn the shortest possible way to write responses, and this brevity of input seems perfectly suited ...

There’s a Google hidden game that will allow users to go on a secret text adventure the next time you open Google.com in Chrome. On occasion, the search engine company creates several Easter eggs, ...

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 ...

We've seen people turn neural networks to almost everything from drafting pickup lines to a new Harry Potter chapter, but it turns out classic text adventure games may be one of the best fits for AI ...

I admit it. I used to type swear words into text adventure games. A lot of the time I wanted to see what replies the author has reserved for potty-mouthed players. It would usually be something like ...

Wikipedia as a classic text adventure: this “game” now exists, and it’s thanks to a London developer who figured out a clever way to interpret the gushing fountain of data that is Wikipedia’s API. The ...