Honestly I don't know of many really good text adventures prior to the first King's Quest. I think The Hobbit was pretty horrible to play though the C64 disk version(superior to the very stripped down, DOS inferior, tape version) had very nice colourful graphics. But surely Infocom had the most intelligent text adventures during that period, after all, the founders had been working on the Zork series, adding to it, while college students in the '70s. Anyhow, I didn't play Planetfall right through until a few years ago, but it's got to be one of the best text adventures. What's more, I got through the game with almost no help from online and after having played the Zork trilogy I wasn't complaining about it being too easy! Actually I like Zork 1:The GUE very much and DID manage to complete that without the internet, but it took about four years of me and a friend working away at it and finally finding all the treasures!
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