I played many of the games covered in the series as a kid thanks to kindly senior software pirates on my local BBS and my mom purchasing a copy of both the Lost

I played many of the games covered in the series as a kid thanks to kindly senior software pirates on my local BBS and my mom purchasing a copy of both the Lost Treasures of Infocom and the sequel. The only problem was that I was too young to really get the genre, it was difficult, so I only ever beat the easier ones, Zork Zero, Wishbringer, Enchanter, Sorcerer and Spellbreaker. The others completely wailed on me, I could barely get a third of the way through the original Zork without being eaten by a grue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom