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>ASK ALL THE TROPES ABOUT TEXT PARSER HISTORY
"The text parser really got started with Crowther and Wood's ''[[Colossal Cave Adventure]]'', but it was not until ''[[Zork]]'' came along that more advanced forms of the parser came along. The parser used in the classic [[Infocom]] games was called ZIL ([[Zork]] Interactive Language). The text parser gradually disappeared from commercial computer gaming in the early 1990s (replaced by [[Action Bar]] and [[Point and Click Game|Point and Click]] interfaces) as game designers wished to reach a different demographic. Fortunately for text fans, a large number of hobbyists have continued to design text parser based [[Interactive Fiction]]. If you'd like to know more, check out the [[Interactive Fiction]] article here on
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