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Zork grew from a mainframe adventure created by MIT programmers and later became one of Infocom's defining commercial text adventures. The player-facing version of the idea is simple. A well-made hub town is a pacing device: combat, story, shopping and recovery all meet in one safe place before the next outward journey. An unexplored patch of map can generate more curiosity than a treasure chest already sitting in front of you.

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Odd but true

Ultima helped popularize large explorable computer worlds during the 1980s. Its later games experimented with morality systems where the player’s behavior mattered as much as defeating enemies. A separate bit of trivia: The term 'NPC' means non-player character. It came from tabletop role-playing language and became so common that it is now understood far beyond RPGs.