I played the original colossal caves advenure obsessively in college. finished it. Hung out with people who altered it, who instead of adding a room to the maze as was the usual hack, added a spray can which yielded different results if you were in the cave or outside the cave (outside it just hissed, as there were no walls to paint). Inside the cave it yielded one of three sentences ... "Beware of the Leopard" "Who is Tom Baker" "Don't say Gazonga" (with a subroutine that caused one of those nasty little dwarves with the sharp knives to come after you if you SAID Gazonga)
I played a little bit of Zork, didn't have a computer when it was in it's heydey. I do have the infocom total zork collection, but haven't really played much of it.
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