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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The original name for this category of games was called Adventure games. People changing the name won't help as it's really still Adventure games. Always has been, always will be. I find the term interactive-fiction to be crud. It's so much nicer to say Adventure game. And it means more too even if the games themselves have evolved (the genre is still the same). The IF such as Colossal Cave and Zork were originally Adventure games. Now why change the genre name and call them something that sounds silly when the name they had (and always will have for those of use who know better) was perfect for them?
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They are indeed Adventure games, but those are a category of the larger class of Interactive Fiction.
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Dennis
Who played the original adventure and dungeon on unix and RSX 11M+ respectively (and who has a version of adventure on his PDA...)