An incomplete chronicle of Crowther and Woods’ Colossal Cave Adventure, the “fons et origo of interactive fiction, and one of the hallowed artifacts” of computer gaming history.
The apparent purpose of the symbolism involved in the vortex seems to be to cue the subconscious and convey to it instructions as to what the participant wishes to do but in terms of nonverbal symbols which the right hemisphere of the mind is capable of understanding.
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