50 Years of Text Games

50 Years of Text Games - From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon - A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction. https://if50.textories.com/

The book covers one text game from each year between 1971 (when The Oregon Trail was first played on a teletype) to 2020, with an in-depth analysis of how it worked, why it’s interesting, and what it says about interactive fiction. A huge swath of genres are covered, from parser games to hypertext to VR poetry to browser games to dating sims to MUDS to BBS games and more.