January 17, 2006

ZORK

filed under: Stuff to laugh at

If you played Zork (or the other InfoCom text-based games) as a kid, this will make you laugh and laugh and then cry a bit and then laugh.

If you didn't, hopefully it will make you laugh anyway. You'll get the point, if not the subtler bits.

Matthew Baldwin at Defective Yeti presents: the Bush presidency as a text-based adventure game.

Posted by rjt at January 17, 2006 02:51 PM
Comments

that leaves me breathless. high concept executed note perfect. bravo.

never could finish zork, always got hung up with the raft.

Posted by: perj at January 18, 2006 11:30 AM