It is a classic, sure to appeal to those who played it on teletypes in the 70's or on Compuserve's BBS.
I can certainly understand why it seems tame today, but it's competition was so much worse. Wait a minute, it didn't have competition, it was in a class by itself!
It's only contemporary was Zork which was based partially on Colossal Cave. That ran on the MIT mainframe and was eventually brought to personal computer by Infocom, although it was split into three different parts
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