From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon: 50 Years of Text Games!
summary
Covers a year‑by‑year blog project that picks one text game per year since Oregon Trail 1971 and claims weekly blog covering 50 games; digs into concrete specifics: Adventure International selling millions and Alexis Adams credited on 1979 Voodoo Castle; a play‑by‑mail Monster Island with a persistent world of 250,000 locations and decades‑long play; Shades, an audio-only 3D positional sound FPS with a 40‑command screen‑reader; contrasts procedurally driven AI Dungeon with Nebula‑nominated handcrafted sense and semiosis.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50Adventure International
- 3:30Monster Island
- 5:00Silver Wolf
- 6:45Shades of Doom
- 8:26Sense and Semiosis
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