A Brief History of Zork (2014)

The young geeks got the idea for Zork from the first text-based video game, Adventure (also called Colossal Cave Adventure or ADVENT, because the computer it ran on could only use so many letters in the command line). The success of Zork compelled Infocom to forget their original plan of creating business software and focus on text video games throughout much of the 1980s, releasing over 40 games across a variety of fictional genres. You are likely to be eaten by a grue” — can be found referenced all over the internet, in old and new video games, and in nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot’s homage to Zork, “It is Pitch Dark” (the music video even has a cameo from Steve Meretzky, one of the lead game designers at Infocom).

Source: mentalfloss.com