Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave"

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From: jsa... John Savard
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:00

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Welmoed Sisson <sis...@erols.com> wrote, in part:

>Yeah, I remember playing that one too ... there are still "images" in my
>memory of parts of that game. (Hmm... something about being in a balloon
>and not stopping at the correct ledge, and floating away, thus losing
>one game ... or was that a later Zork?)

I think that's Zork II, but the original Zork included Zork I, Zork
II, and Zork III - it was split into pieces to be played on home
computers as opposed to, say, Unix systems.

John Savard ( teneerf<- )
http://www.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto.htm

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From: jsa...@tenMAPSONeerf.edmonton.ab.ca (John Savard)
Subject: Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave"
Date: 1999/09/30
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