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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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When I first started playing them in the '80s I knew them as Interactive Fiction, I never knew them by any other term. It seems to me that it's a bit after the fact to take exception to a name change that essentially happened 20 years ago.
I'm guessing here that Infocom coined the term "Interactive Fiction" to give their products a bit of distinction from the originals. It does describe the mechanism of the games better, in my opinion.
