Director: Jason Scott

Writer: Jason Scott

Keywords: Documentary, Video Game

Documentary examines the 1980s phenomenon of text-adventure computer games.

ABSTRACT
Largely forgotten amidst the sands of time and alien to gamers hailing from a modern generation filled with slick, beautiful-sounding gaming experiences, text adventures ruled the burgeoning-yet-technologically limited personal computing industry of the early-to-mid 1980s, spawning game franchises such as Zork that relied on a player's hopefully-active imagination to weave their tale. The dusty story of this genre of computer game comes back to life in Get Lamp, an indie documentary tracing the rise and fall of Infocom and a host of other players in the text-adventure industry.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Marc Blank	Computer Programmer	1954		Programmer behind Zork
Robert Pinsky	Poet	20-Oct-1940		US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000
Warren Robinett	Computer Programmer	c. 1951		Atari 2600 game Adventure
John Romero	Computer Programmer	28-Oct-1967		Doom, Quake, Daikatana
Jason Scott	Historian	13-Sep-1970		GET LAMP, Sockington Cat

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