The Null Device

Christmas Day With My New Girlfriend's Family As A Circa-1982 Text-Based Computer Adventure Game:

> INVENTORY

You are carrying:

A cell phone with a message from your friends Dave and Paul telling you what a fun time they're having in the Bahamas

A slowly coalescing escape plan

A piece of ham

Resentment toward Emily for persuading you that visiting her parents at Christmas would be "totally fun"

(via substitute) ¶ fiction humour interactive fiction mcsweeneys 0

Quake as interactive fiction, using the Infocom Z-machine engine and Quake data files. Insane.

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Could this be the best 404 ever?

Welcome to Zork. This version created 11-MAR-91 (PHP mod 25-OCT-2001)
There are 4 users playing Zork.
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

>

(via Peter, who really should update his blog more often)

¶ amusing interactive fiction web zork 1

There's an online Java version of the old Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game on Douglas Adams' website. (via Hear Ye)

¶ douglas adams hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy infocom interactive fiction retrocomputing 0