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I grew up in the era of the TRS-80 and Apple II. I was also an oddity among my friends who had computers, because I preferred the text based games from Infocom over the graphical games. I played a lot of Zork, and Wishbringer, as well as Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, which was probably my favorite.

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I'm still an oddity among my friends for playing Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, and various MUDs over the current graphical offerings. Something about those games and the level of detail afforded to being purely in text, without the graphical overhead, makes them endlessly entertaining and full of depth to me.

Not to say there aren't some great games out there today that manage both, like Rimworld for example.

Yea, I almost exclusively do text games these days.

Zork and related games were so good at making your imagination create scenery that I caught myself looking for screenshots of a game that was actually a text adventure.

I was an avid reader as well, more so than most friends. I wonder if those two are related.

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