Gather ’round, kids, and listen to my tale of the computer games of years gone by. Those without any kind of newfangled “graphics” or flashy “UI.” If you had a Commodore 64 or Apple when you were ...

A secret Easter egg game lets you play as the big blue "G" in the Google logo, but watch out for the alligator. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET.

Are you feeling a bit nostalgic for the days of Zork and other classic text adventure games? If so, then Google has you covered with an Easter egg embedded in its website. A Reddit user discovered ...

Jason Scott's first documentary in 2005 was about bulletin board systems (BBSs), which were in a sense the PC world's parallel evolution of the early Internet. This documentary, really more a ...

It’s easy to dismiss text adventures as the relics of a bygone age. They served a purpose when art and animation were too memory-intensive for the computers of the day. They were popular with a ...

Long before computer animation and virtual reality, people were creating virtual worlds in a more traditional way: text. And some of the most vibrant and complete virtual worlds existed in a quirky ...

Easy-to-use tools and indie game markets help ’80s-style interactive fiction draw in new developers and new players like never before. Indie games are often noted for their simplistic graphics, but ...

I've been haunted by Radical Dreamers since I was a nerdy, RPG-loving teenager. In 1996, I heard internet whispers about a pseudo-sequel to the SNES masterpiece Chrono Trigger, which remains my ...

I admit it. I used to type swear words into text adventure games. A lot of the time I wanted to see what replies the author has reserved for potty-mouthed players. It would usually be something like ...

We all love a good, elaborate Easter egg, and Google has gained a reputation for laying those around consistently over the years. The most recent one is an old-school text-based adventure game that ...

In order to finance the new 007 film Skyfall, MGM and Sony turned to brand to raise a rumored $45 million in product placement, bringing in partners ranging from Heineken to Coca Cola. To promote the ...