Saturday March 17, 2007
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Saturday March 17, 2007 | CNET Gets It Wrong: Again | Games |
I really don't haven't anything against CNET, but their sloppy reporting once again forces my blogging hand.
This time it's CNET's list of the 10 Most Important Games of All Time. The list itself is pretty good (and it is subjective, so I can't fault them there), but the #3 entry for Zork says this:
Zork, once MIT hacker jargon for an unfinished program, according to Wikipedia, spawned the term "adventure game" in 1980.
Well, that is just wrong. Anyone who knows anything about text-based adventure games, knows that they all came from a game called adventure! a.k.a. "Colossal Caves" or ADVENT.
I checked the Wikipedia entries for Zork, ADVENT and adventure game, and none of them make that claim. In fact, they all say that ADVENT was the first adventure game. Yes, Wikipedia entries change, but I checked the history for the Zork entry and as far back as 2001 (just weeks after the entry was created) it states that Zork was influenced by, and came after, ADVENT.
It took me two minutes to make those checks. For people who pretend to be reporters, they should try harder. This isn't to say that Zork wasn't important and shouldn't be on the list, but they should get their facts straight.
Read hear more about ADVENT.
Tags: cnet | zork | advent | adventure games | games
Tags: advent adventure cnet games wrong zork
March 17, 2007 12:03 PM PDT Permalink | Comments [1] |
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