I'm reading Steve Wozniak's autobiography iWoz at the moment and so I've been reminiscing about my early Apple II days. Back in May 2001 when reminiscence last happened in a big way, I spent the weekend writing an Apple II emulator in Python (see ApplePy) :-)
This time, I also started reminiscing about the computer I had before the Apple II, the first generation TRS-80 Color Computer. My strongest memory of the CoCo was using the EDASM ROM cartridge to learn 6809 assembly language programming.
But I also remember playing text adventure games, like Bedlam.
With a bit of Googling, I found a CoCo emulator Java Applet that includes Bedlam. I don't think I ever got the game out as a kid. But last night I completed it in about an hour. Funny how back then it seemed like such a "big" game. In fact, it had only 25 rooms and 5 objects.
Still a lot of fun.