In the late 70s, the first real text-based game, Colossal Cave Adventure, was burning up the very limited interconnected networks of ARPANET, which was the precursor to the internet.

A secret text adventure game has been discovered in the source code of Google Chrome. A Redditor found the easter egg by typing "text adventure" into google.com and opening Chrome's javascript ...

An Easter egg has been found on Google's website, allowing users to engage in a fun text adventure game without leaving their web browser — just access the Javascript developer console. Join the ...

Julia Minamata’s first game, The Crimson Diamond, is a text parser using EGA-style art.

Open Google.com in Chrome. (It might work in other browsers, but it was a bit glitchy when I tried it elsewhere.) Search for “text adventure” without the quotes. Open the JavaScript developer ...

This week’s free games are north, south, and west. Some have been eaten by ... In honor of the 2012 Interactive Fiction contest we’ll be featuring text-based games in this week’s Free Game ...

CSS and JavaScript also play major roles in setting up the bubble shooter game that the book will have you build and HTML5 game development in general. Getting started You’re going to learn about: ...