To celebrate Halloween this year, former Game|Life contributor Susan Arendt has written a text adventure game, dubbed Phantom of the Arcade. As usual with the classic genre, the majority of the ...

A port by Eric S. Raymond of the 1995 version of the game can also be found as Open Adventure, and there’s a 1990-era DOS version you can experience on real hardware or even in a browser window ...

Enterprising gamers are formatting vintage text-based adventure games such as Zork I, II and III for the Kindle and other dedicated e-readers. “Many people cut their teeth on the imagination ...

Wikipedia: The Text Adventure lets you explore Wikipedia articles as if they were part of an adventure right out of the '80s.

Huge! Zork expanded the horizons of the text-adventure genre in terms of complexity, possibilities, lore, and puzzles. It’s still an engaging and intriguing game. Check it out yourself.

However, Don Woods, who later enhanced the game, does put in an appearance. 'Get Lamp' is Jason Scott's new documentary about text adventure games. Jason Scott Fast-forward a few years to the late ...