A computer game genre (most popular in the 1970s and 1980s) where the player directs the character by typing commands.
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Colossal Cave was actually one of the very first text adventure games.
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Adventure, the original text adventure game by Will Crowther and Don Woods.
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Zork was one of the earliest and most famous text adventure games.
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Zork, the Great Underground Empire, one of the first and best-known text adventure games.
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The result was 1983's Le Vampire Fou, the first text adventure written in French.
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I have a soft spot for text adventure games but good ones are hard to find.
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His cover letter was a self-referential text adventure about his own efforts to secure his dream job.
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Some people might call that a short story, but I called it a " text adventure".
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If you can, it's a text adventure.
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But after playing Sierra's illustrated text adventure Mystery House, he decided to write a game of his own.
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A new short-form text adventure by Michael Lutz plays off of this surprisingly ubiquitous piece of playground balderdash.
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Most old text adventure games were pretty self-explanatory, so I'd never actually bothered to read the Zork instruction manual.
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King's Quest combined the best of early text adventure games with pioneering graphics for IBM's latest computer, The PC Junior.
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His second documentary, Get Lamp, set to debut this week, examines text adventure games through interviews with developers, designers and players.
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To celebrate Halloween this year, former Game|Life contributor Susan Arendt has written a text adventure game, dubbed Phantom of the Arcade.
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If you look at text adventure contemporaries, you find games in which you can turn in four directions and shoot at a ship.