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.wik

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"