I've had a one-line review of this up for a long time, but it's probably time to say a few more words. This is the first videogame to be ported to a system intended for text adventures. Andrew Plotkin performed this feat as a joke, firmly establishing his reputation in the interactive fiction community as a complete and utter madman. Since then, the practice of abusing the Z-machine in this way has spread, and it's difficult now to fully appreciate the amazement and horror that the idea originally inspired. Still, this is not in any sense a text adventure, or even interactive fiction.

Rating: Not rated

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (15 Feb 2001)

tetris.zip (179.46 KB)

Hugo executable (version: 2, ported by Kent Tessman, music by Erik "ZNOW" Eriksson, sound, music)

tetris_source.zip (181.80 KB)

Hugo source code (version: Release 2.5, ported by Kent Tessman)

freefall.inf (13.42 KB)

Inform source code (version: Release 2)

freefall.z5 (3.50 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: 2, ported by Andrew Plotkin)