50 Years of Text Games parses the rich history of a foundational genre

Awe, I was hoping to see a Hadean Lands mention in the book, but it was on his “these didn’t make the book but are great” list.

The list of games written about can be found on his substack archive here: https://if50.substack.com/archive

Universal Paperclips is a journey. What starts as a clicker game turns into so much more. It's a free browser game, but in that old-time sense of freeware.

Oh wow, I vaguely remember a misspent childhood on MUDs and MUCKs. I wonder if any of them are still going…