iFiction

Historical Classics

The elevator opens to reveal a clean, cool room with a single computer in it. That computer occupies most of the room. It consists of a number of large cabinets, most of which are festooned with blinking lights. A couple cabinets have reels of tape on their faces, and a couple more are topped with a stack of enormous hard drive platters. There is a door and window in the back wall. Through the window you can see that most of this floor is taken up by an air conditioning plant and power regulation equipment.

Along one wall are shelves holding more tape reels and drive platters. On either side of the door to the Elevator is a long table, each with a row of dumb terminals. Taped to the wall are several sheets of paper, with handwritten descriptions of the games that are running on the old machine.

Adventure
The Interactive Original
Play 350-point version
Play German translation
Play Spanish translation
Copyright © 1973 by Will Crowther.
Copyright © 1977 by Don Woods.
Copyright © 1997 by Jose Luis Diaz (Spanish translation).
Copyright © 1998 by Toni Arnold (German translation).
Game Review at Baf's Guide
The adventure game that started it all, reconstructed by David M. Baggett to TADS, then ported to Inform by Graham Nelson. This game reconstructs the architecture of Bedquilt Cave that was discovered by the mulatto slave Stephen Bishop.

Dungeon
Welcome to ZORK.
Play "Dungeon"
Copyright © 1979 by Bruce Daniels, Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Tim Anderson.
Copyright © 2000 by Activision, Inc.
Game Review at Baf's Guide
Welcome to Zork. Will the Circle be unbroken? ZDungeon is a port to Inform of the original Zork/Dungeon game written in MDL at MIT prior to the founding of Infocom. It comes straight from the original without any diversions through FORTRAN or C.

Eliza
An Interactive Parroting
Play "Eliza"
Copyright © 1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum.
Game Review at Baf's Guide
A version of the "Eliza" psychiatric interview program. Alan Turing presumably spinning in his grave somewhere. From a Creative Computing magazine article. Originally described by Joseph Weizenbaum in "ELIZA -- A computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine", Communications of the ACM 9(1):36-45, 1966.

Hunt the Wumpus
Play "Hunt the Wumpus"
Copyright © 1972 by Gregory Yob.
Game Review at Baf's Guide

Softporn Adventure
An Interactive Classic
Play "Softporn Adventure"
Copyright © 1984 by Chuck Benton.
Game Review at Baf's Guide
The text adventure that became the first of Sierra's long-running "Leisure Suit Larry."