Craig Smith, author of the free Frotz Z-machine interpreter for iPhone and iPod Touch, is interviewed by Cult of Mac.
These games were primarily text-based, with you solving puzzles via verb-noun parsers. As time went on, adventures gradually became increasingly complex and elaborate, with Infocom arguably leading the genre to its height.
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