50 Years of Text Games

This is a collection of essays from Aaron's blog, spanning from the early 1970s through to the 2010s, detailing the evolution of text games, from early terminal based games through to online games and interactive art.

This goes beyond a collection of blog articles. Each individual essay was already well crafted, but these have been edited, expanded, annotated, and turned in to a cohesive history. This is really a comphrehensive history of text gaming. Exploring genres that I didn't expect to see, I took my time with this in both hardcover and e-book format, and took notes as I went for games that I had no idea about and have built up a nice comprehensive list of new games I want to explore. Aaron's knowledge and enthusiasm is infectious, and he's spent real time getting to know each game, and somehow turning building a narrative over the entire book.