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Frotz for the iPhone and iPod Touch!

It wasn't too long ago that I noticed a nerdcore rapper tackling the subject of text based adventure games.  Now it seems that the popular software (popular amongst us text based adventure game enthusiasts that is) Frotz has been ported to an Apple App!

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MC Frontalot just earned six billion nerd points for rapping about Zork

I generally don't think all that much about Zork or other text adventure games on a regular basis unless something comes along to remind me about them.  This usually happens about once a year.  This time, my reminder comes via MC Frontalot - a nerdcore rapper who's compiled a wonderful tome of text adventure lingo into "It's Pitch Dark".  Words that brought horror to many a Zork player.  With the opening words (and chorus) "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" I was sucked into a style of music I'm not generally partial to.

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