If you proceed, you are likely to be eaten by a grue.

[truepenny]

Article on text adventures--for which the swank modern term is apparently "interactive fiction."

(And Mirrorthaw gets a gold star for sending me the link.)

I played almost every game Infocom released. Planetfall was the best, imo, but my greatest lingering fondness is probably for Zork and its sequels.

All hail the Great Underground Empire!

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Zork!
Wishbringer!
Hitchhiker's!
Suspended!
Moonmist!
Infidel!
Leather Goddesses of Phobos!

Infocom was the primary source of my childhood loss of innocence. The RPG for kids without RPG friends. I have the Lost Treasures of Infocom on disk. All Hail Infocom.