Interactive Tales: Interactive Fiction in Pop Culture

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Interactive Fiction in pop culture.

Halt and Catch Fire

A 2 minute clip of the episode "Adventure" (Season 1, airdate: June 29, 2014).

Cameron chooses her team by way of

Colossal Cave Adventure.

Colossal Cave Adventure (or simply "Adventure")
was the first text adventure ever.
It was created by cave explorer Will Crowther
between 1975 and 1976 and expanded and improved
by Don Woods from 1977 - 1995.

Adventure was the inspiration for Infocom's breakthrough title

Zork.

Zork was inspired by Colossal Cave Adventure.
It was made at MIT from 1977-1979
to be played on mainframe systems.
In 1980 the code was reworked and it was released
for PCs as the first commercial text adventure.

The Big Bang Theory

Sheldon rediscovers the joy of Zork in the episode "The Irish Pub Formulation"
(Season 4, airdate: October 28, 2010).