I seem to have stumbled across some textual game links recently.
For one, here’s a 10-line Basic adventure for the ZX81, being ported to VIC20 and to the Zork Implementation Language…
And for another, some people on Mastodon have been enjoying a simultaneous play of Oregon Trail, the famous semi-graphical Apple II game (play online here). After which, FiXato posts this:
Those who have played and/or love the #OregonTrail, might also enjoy watching the #ClassicGamePostMortem about it as given by one of its creators, #DonRawitz, during the #GameDevelopersConference of #2017:
It discusses both the #boardGame and #mainframe origins (if my memory serves me well).
Myself, I haven’t played that particular text simulation. I don’t seem to have the patience for strategy. But I remember a game on Acorn’s Beeb: UK PM (which I perhaps confused with Great Britain Ltd).
And then, there’s the classic Hammurabi/Hamurabi, seen here in playable-online form for the PC, but seen very early on in David H. Ahl’s 1978 book BASIC Computer Games (aka 101 BASIC Computer Games).