A book about text adventures is the latest essential addition to your videogame history library
Last year, Aaron A. Reed published 50 Years of Text Games, a fascinating history of the kind of games where you have to «get lamp» or «float down the Columbia river». It covered ancient classics like Hunt the Wumpus and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy through to more modern games doing fascinating things with letters on a screen like Dwarf Fortress and 80 Days. Now he's published a companion volume called Further Explorations, which covers stuff that had to be left out of the original—which focused on one exemplary game from each year from 1971 to 2020—but is no less interesting.
