I was thinking of that very, um, passage (sorry) just a few days ago. Does anybody remember any of the names of the older versions? It was a quest to get a pirate's treasure, very simpleminded, your only available options were NSEW . . .I played it on CICS . . . 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 > >