History Main / InteractiveFiction

* ''TheDreamhold''

* ''VideoGame/SurvivingHighschool

** ''VideoGame/WayWalkersUniversity''

* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfShredsAndPatches''

* ''VideoGame/TheHobbit'' (1982)

* ''VideoGame/{Galatea}}''

* WelcomeToCorneria: Common with {{NPC}}s, especially in early games, but becoming used less and less. ({{Galatea}} might be the strongest single-author aversion out there.)

* ''{{Galatea}}''

* ''Literature/ExplainPeriodsToMeLikeIAMACisMan''

* ''{{Glowgrass}}''

* ''{{Violet}}''

* ''[[HomestarRunner Thy Dungeonman]]''

* ''{{Eamon}}''

** Averted by all the Scott Adams / Adventure International games, and others inspired by them, which all used first person: ''"I'm in a forest clearing. What do you want me to do?"''

** Averted by all the Scott Adams / Adventure International games, and ones inspired by them, which all used first person: ''"I'm in a forest clearing."''

Interactive Fiction is a term originally introduced by the seminal AdventureGame company Creator/{{Infocom}} to describe its line of more "serious" long-form text adventures back in the Golden Era. Interactive fiction games are adventure games in which the interaction is almost entirely text-based. Early games, and games from purist companies like Infocom, were nothing more than bare text, but some later offerings added pictures, sound and limited mouse input (one game, ''VideoGame/LeatherGoddessesOfPhobos'', even included plot-relevant scratch-and-sniff cards as {{Feelies}}) -- but the primary form of interaction was still through descriptive text and typed commands. The genre began with the original adventure game, ''VideoGame/ColossalCave'', and really took off in the early 1980s, with offerings such as the ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' trilogy and later, more literary works, such as ''VideoGame/{{Trinity}}'' and ''VideoGame/AMindForeverVoyaging''.

-->-- ''Colossal Cave Adventure''