Pac-Man, the text adventure
The air is painfully infused with a whizzing sound as the ghost comes down on you. The last you feel, are the ghost's sharp teeth in your neck. As you regain consciousness you are in the exact place, where you entered the maze first.
Even older (but more playable) than the similar Pac-TXT, but due for a resurgence in this post-Guitar Hero 1.0 world (which to my knowledge still isn't playable -- you disappoint me, internet) is mass:werk's Pac-Man Dungeons, mixing all the thrills of a breakneck ghost chase with the joy of typing 'e' repeatedly.
Pac-Man Dungeons [mass:werk, via InfiniteLives]
Previously:
Guitar Hero 1.0 begging for real-life remake - Offworld
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Anonymous Anonymous
#1 – 9:59 AM January 26, 2009
Even older is Adam Cadre's interactive fiction version of Pac-Man: http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Pac-Man
SC_Wolf
#2 – 9:47 PM January 26, 2009
The "Today on Offworld" posts on the main BoingBoing and on BoingBoing Gadgets, this is incorrectly described as a "MUD."
To be a MUD, Multiple Users would have to be sharing the same Dungeon at the same time. This is nothing more than Interactive Fiction designed for remote connections.
(I would have preferred to make this comment directly to the incorrect "Today on Offworld" post, but comments aren't allowed there.)
kathryn
#3 – 7:36 AM January 27, 2009
I came here, at the risk of revealing myself to be a serious nerd, to say the same thing SC_WOLF said, but he beat me to it.
It's a single player text adventure Pac-Man, not a MUD.