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"Interactive fiction" ..HOW the heck did "text adventures" end up with that name?? ALL games are "interactive fiction"! Did some non-gamer blog or something st

• nimih 2y ago
  The IF archive (IF standing for “interactive fiction”, and the archive containing exclusively text adventures and related content) has existed since 1992. So to answer your question, it is unlikely that a “non-gamer blog” invented the term. In fact, the rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup apparently dates back to 1987, well before the concept of blogs, or really “gamer” in its modern sense, had come about.
• mwigdahl 2y ago
  According to Jimmy Maher (who would likely know best) the term was coined in 1979. https://www.filfre.net/2011/09/robert-lafores-interactive-fiction/ https://www.filfre.net/2011/09/robert-lafores-interactive-fi...
• kryptiskt 2y ago
  It was used by Infocom to describe what they did. Here is the box art to Zork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork#/media/File:Zork_I_box_art.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork#/media/File:Zork_I_box_ar... Look at the lower right, it says "Interactive Fiction"
  • Razengan 2y ago
    Oh haha, well I guess it was the ONLY "interactive fiction" back then! ^^