Alison Scott’s Reviews > 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon > Status Update

Detailed, thorough. I’d read the substack posts that this book collates, but there’s a lot of interesting introductory information including all sorts of stuff I didn’t know about the early history of computer games – including for example that they were sold on punch cards, or that ELIZA was written to demonstrate the pointlessness and triviality of chatbots.