He loves text based adventure games like Zork so much that he wanted to create his own implementation of the core technology that made these games possible all those years ago.

To celebrate Halloween this year, former Game|Life contributor Susan Arendt has written a text adventure game, dubbed Phantom of the Arcade. As usual with the classic genre, the majority of the ...

Text adventure games may seem like ancient history but they have aspects in common with today's casual and social games.

Enterprising gamers are formatting vintage text-based adventure games such as Zork I, II and III for the Kindle and other dedicated e-readers. “Many people cut their teeth on the imagination ...

Wikipedia: The Text Adventure lets you explore Wikipedia articles as if they were part of an adventure right out of the '80s.

The 1980s were the height of text-based adventure games. These titles are among the best the decade produced, and influence gaming to this day.

These days, adventure gamers are filled with options. There are so many viable titles to get through, with a conveyor belt of new releases frequently coming to the fore. Many of these products are ...