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Text adventures: what are they, and where did they hide all the graphics? Until now, these questions have gone unanswered. But this week, we'll be looking at the world of games that existed before any kind of mandatory visual component—and continue to exist to this very day. And we have a real expert on hand: Aaron Reed, author of the upcoming comprehensive text adventure respective, 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon. So listen in as host Bob Mackey helps steer the Retronauts podcast ship through these formerly uncharted waters. (By us, anyway.)

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Angel S.

An absolute banger of an episode!

littleterr0r

Bob, you went back to mispronouncing Oregon. You can make it up to us by coming to PRGE.

Johnny Fitz

Aaron should just be a regular panelist moving forward. His answers were so interesting and thoughtful.

GameBoyJames

What an informative and fascinating episode. Bravo!

Jefklak

I love the fact that Retronauts allows authors of awesome game-related books some exposure. Thanks!

Gabriel Schray

Can someone ID the music at 40:00? 🎶

David Louis

Man that book kind of spoils those games though!! Would it be better to beat every game (outside of Dwarf Fortress obviously) before buying it?