Fantastic fun with text adventures…I remember playing (and still have) Adventure Land and several others in the Scott Adams series like The Count, Pirate Adventure, or Voodoo Castle on the VIC-20.

One of the coolest things about text based games is they can be created on basically any platform, and ported relatively easily as well. Without visuals, there is extra focus on the writing and descriptions.

Thanks for the links and intro to Inform…I had never heard of it before, I’m betting my son will really like it as well. There may be a text based adventure game creation competition in the future of our household :)