text based games were cool back in their day! we had one at school on the bbc b computer (bbc branded acorn electron - was very popular in the 80's in uk) and my favourite was this semi-edutainment one where you had to explore this magic mansion or castle or something, and it had really cool tasks like complete a tune on the keys and stuff like that. the most important thing, like with all written words, is that its well written!! so you can picture yourself in the places with your imagination. if they just have "you are in a clearing" its like. oh, right.
text games were huge on the zx spectrum (another popular uk 8bit - sold as timex in usa but didnt catch on) with various tolkien based ones being especially popular.
ive heard that there were cool ones on the apple II, but i never had one
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