Thursday, June 23, 2011

Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Waxy.org

Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator - Waxy.org

Telehack is the most interesting game I've played in the last year... a game that most users won't realize is a game at all.

It's a tour de force hack — an interactive pastiche of 1980s computer history, tying together public archives of Usenet newsgroups, BBS textfiles, software archives, and historical computer networks into a multiplayer adventure game.

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