a mind forever voyaging.

The text adventure, or to give it its proper name, interactive fiction, has been around since the late 1970s, with all-time classic companies like Infocom making amazingly packaged, amazingly good text adventures. Even now, past the golden age, here are plenty of great archives, and even a the yearly XYZZY competition to decide the best NEW interactive fiction. And we've got to love any medium which has games like 'Being Andrew Plotkin', which is, yes, a 'Being John Malkovich' parody about a famous Interactive Fiction writer. Seriously bizarre.