Life in Adventure Review: Choose Your Own Adventure Revisited
The first video game I ever played was text-based. I recall this initial encounter was at my father’s work computer lab. His computer lab was a hot room full of massive, mainframe computers and he set me up at a terminal right outside of that room. He told me about a game where I was lost in a cave, and to find my way out I had to type words and directions on the keyboard. I spent hours playing this game while my father worked, and the whole thing was nothing more than glowing, orange-hued words on black screen—no animation, no HUD, not even a picture or graphics of any kind.
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