Time's Top 100 Games

[kandrathe]

I know I'm old when I looked at the 1970's and 1980's lists and realized I've played all but five of those games personally. Check out the TIME link at the top for descriptions and screenshots of their choices.

Ditto. I worked at MECC during the Oregon Trail days in the late 70's and early 80's.

When I saw Adventure -- I thought they meant Advent -- which is short for Adventure, but in those days computer program names were short.

Zork is a direct descendant of Advent, as is the horrible Atari 2600 inspired duck hunting knock off.

I got my original interest in NLP from analyzing the source code from games like Advent, Zork, and Eliza.