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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Instructions in interpreters
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Den of Iniquity (dmss100@york.ac.uk) wrote:
> I've noticed that virtually all of the main adventures of recent days
> contain, in their 'help' or 'info' menus, a long or short section entitled
> something along the lines of "How to play this adventure". A brief summary
> of the pertinent points of the parser, sometimes a little sample script.
> Why does almost everything have to contain this info? 

Every game is somebody's very first game.

I leave out the text, because I'm a lazy bastard and I flatter myself 
that I'm writing for experienced players. It's not a good enough excuse.

--Z

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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
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