rone wrote: >Ken Koester writes: > Mark A. Mandel wrote: > ># ...a twisty maze of little passages, all the same. [Tlt 159] > >Mark-Jason Dominus points out that this line originated in Adventure and > >was taken up by the later game Zork. > I don't remember the date for Adventure, but this was a common line in a > dungeon-ish game on PLATO out of CERL in '78 or so, and was not original > to the author even then. > >http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/ADVENT.html > >rone > > Thanks. So the PLATO author, whoever that was, grabbed the game about 2 years after Stanford. I knew he had gotten it from somewhere else, never knew where. Snarkhunter