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50 Years of Text Games
By Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky
Released: October 1984 (Infocom)
Language: ZIL
Platform: Z-Machine version 3 (Apple II; Atari 8-bit; Commodore 16, Plus/4, 64; PC DOS; Macintosh; TI-99/4A; TRS-80)
Opening Text:
You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can t.
It is pitch black.
>inventory
You have: a splitting headache no tea
Note: contains in-depth discussions of several puzzles, including the Babel Fish, “common sense,” and Dark puzzles.
Douglas Adams, at first, did not like computers. In fact he had built a career out of making fun of them with his