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Mnementh said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Didn't know about that, added to my wishlist.

Still have that "With what? Your bare hands?" in my head when playing the original when I was younger...

Actually this is a remake, a remake of one of the oldest games, called Collossal Cave Adventure, Advent350 (because you could gain 350 points), or simply Adventure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure ). That is the game that defined the adventure genre. The Zork-games came after and there strongly inspired by this. It was a pure text-based game, because most computers didn't do graphics (it was made for a PDP-10). Ken and Roberta's remake do it in 3D-graphics, but originally it looked like this:

I know fully well it's a remake. Like I hinted at with my last sentence, I have played the original (well, the DOS version) over 30 years ago.