You had to be around in the early days of text adventure games to really appreciate them . Unlike today's graphic intensive games, your imagination was key. If you didn't read carefully, you usually ended up dead. There were no graphics, just rich textual description of where you were and what was happening.
Text typed by the user is in cap letters.
Lower case letters show the computer's response. Welcome to Zork. This version created December 8. West of House. You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door.