One of the great things about being my age (which I will not say, but should not be hard to guess), is that many of the things I got teased about when I was geeky kid are cool now that I am a geeky adult. TV shows like Psych and Chuck make their money by appealing to lifelong geeks like me. Geeks are so cool now, you’d think everyone in my generation grew up reading Tolkien, programming TRS-80s, and playing Dungeons and Dragons. But I know better. There weren’t many of us back then, at least in the heart of Montana where I lived.
One of those geeky things I loved to do was play Zork, a text-based computer game by Infocom. My friends and I would play Zork on my Apple IIe and try to conquer the underground kingdom while avoiding being eaten by the Grue. Ah, the hours we wasted getting lost in an imaginary world created solely by green text on a black background.
