This seems like a good opportunity to plug my web port of the David Platt 550-point version: http://grack.com/demos/adventure

Source is here: https://github.com/mmastrac/adventure

This was a fun multi-year project for me. I had to reverse engineer everything from the Fortran executive and the very incomplete documentation for the game.

I learned FORTRAN in at a summer job between jr and sr years of high school from the source code of some version in 1978 on a MODCOMP mini computer with IBM terminals where I saw zeroes with dots in the middle for the first time.

People might be interested in Jason Scott's documentary about text adventures: Get Lamp http://www.getlamp.com/

I like there is a text adventure included in many versions of emacs.

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