Text adventures were some of the earliest forms of video games, but weve come a long way since Hunt the Wumpus and Adventure. Some of todays surviving pockets of the genre are visual novels and gamebooks two very niche types of games that most people associate with tons of reading. They cringe at the idea and then go peruse libraries in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Despite their name, these games arent all about text. Interactive fiction is perhaps a better classification. That misconception can...
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