You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

[sgrunt]

A hollow voice says "ploog".

[bcadren]

I once made a 3D version of that in two days. It's shit.

(A maze of twisty little passages; not Zork itself.)

[stickyfingers]

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63565 | Elf:3    | Identified the +2,+2 lajatang of Plog {freeze, rC++}

The dude's cool.

[XuaXua]

A hollow voice says "ploog".

What is the likeliness of me to be eaten by a grue?

[tasonir]

I once made a 3D version of that in two days. It's shit.

(A maze of twisty little passages; not Zork itself.)

NEWB! The phrase originates with adventure, zork is sooooo mainstream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

Kids, off my lawn, etc etc.

[archaeo]

It was originally designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky.

This has always been my favorite part of Adventure. It's also exactly how SGrunt designs Crawl vaults to this day, only his cave systems are significantly less friendly for tourists and weekend spelunkers.

[nicolae]

It was originally designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky.

This has always been my favorite part of Adventure. It's also exactly how SGrunt designs Crawl vaults to this day, only his cave systems are significantly less friendly for tourists and weekend spelunkers.

actually since 0.10 if you want to make a crawl vault you have to demonstrate that it sufficiently resembles a real-world cave feature before it'll get accepted

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

You take out a плуг and start swinging it obediently.