boy do i remember that game...and what those MIT people did with it by writing zork(s)!! (heck virtually ALL those old infocom games were/are great!!)
interestingly, now that you point the game out, i have to wonder if that is exactly why i'm such a 'completion-ist' with rpgs. in the old text format gaming, there were no mouse-clicks...there wasn't a mouse!...and you had to try EVERYTHING to solve the puzzles. additionally, you picked up and tried to use everything you found.
and look what this has done to me.......
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