A look back at 1982's text adventure of The Hobbit

Aaron Reed's "50 Years of Text Games" is a delightful SubStack newsletter that as its name suggests explores the history of early text-based video games. Each installation focuses on a different game year and a different year, starting in 1976:

"50 Years of Text Games" is a project that traces a path through the history of digital games without graphics, by picking one game from each year between 1971 to 2021 and taking an in-depth look at how it works and why it's important.