* AdaptationDisplacement: Nearly everyone who has ever played this game played a port.
* AntiClimaxBoss:
-->>KILL DRAGON
-->WITH WHAT? YOUR BARE HANDS?
-->>[[BluntYes YES]]
-->[[ViolationOfCommonSense CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE JUST VANQUISHED A DRAGON WITH YOUR BARE HANDS!]] ([[LampshadeHanging UNBELIEVABLE, ISN'T IT?]])
* MemeticMutation: "Xyzzy", a magic word used to teleport to and from a certain room early in the cave. It has become a meme in InteractiveFiction circles, to the point that developers tend to program responses to it in their games.
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