Curmudgeon Gamer's jvm points out a bizarre little gaming curiosity. During a piece on NPR's Morning
Edition yesterday called The Quest for Reliable
Directions reporter David Kestenbaum said: Sisk admits that he lives in a complicated part of the city, a maze of twisty little roads, all alike.
This, of course, is a reference to the classic text adventure title Adventure (or Colossal Cave), raising all sort of questions. jvm asks: "Is Kestenbaum an adventure gamer? Did Sisk, the person mentioned in the story, use those words? Did someone else slip it in? Did the author know about, or even play, the famous game?"
I think perhaps this turn of phrase, by way of being nearly thirty years old, may have finally permeated our culture. It didn't appear only in Adventure, but also Zork many other text adventures. Nick Montfort titled his academic "approach to Interactive Fiction" with the phrase.
Anyone else hear this phrase used by a non-gamer before? Or is this strictly geek-speak?
