Remember text adventures of yore? BBC just released the 30th anniversary version, playable online.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition)
I still have nightmares about playing Adventure and Pirates Cove on a Xerox machine with a monochrome ASCII monitor, no hard drive and two eight inch floppy discs. So, I may not get out of the first room. This game wouldn't have run on the Xerox, but it's crazy how far we've come in just a few decades!
Wiki picture, but same $3000+ rig (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_820) (Dad was a Xerox salesman):
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Xerox_820.jpg/600px-Xerox_820.jpg)
I LOVED playing the Hitchhiker's game!
This was basically my setup growing up. Atari 800XL
(http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/images/2011-12-29-atari-800xl.jpg)
I remember wishing to get one of those! It seems like it was even sold at the KB Toy store at the mall.
Later on, we were able to get the TI 99/4a for games and BASIC programming, which saved programs via a cassette tape. Never could afford cool accessories like the disk drive.
I had the Commodore 64. I took out a loan at the credit union to buy the disk drive so I could play the Infocom games. I played Planetfall (sci-fi comedy) that night about 12 straight hours. Never did finish it.
There were magazines that had little games and programs you could type in and save to the tape drive. You'd spend hours typing them in only to find they wouldn't work. Then you'd go line by line trying to find the typo. And you'd invariably find that you typed everything correctly and three months later they magazine would print their corrections. Drove me nuts.