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 ...

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.

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 ...

The web browser has a text-based adventure game set on the Google campus hidden in its code.

Video games have always pushed the visual capabilities of computers, but text adventure games like Zork pushed boundaries using nothing but words.

In honor of the 2012 Interactive Fiction contest we’ll be featuring text-based games in this week’s Free Game Friday roundup. Not all of this week’s games come from the competition, but they ...

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