I love retro gaming, and I adore this blog:
The author, Jason Dwyer, is playing hundreds of adventure games in mostly chronological order -- meaning it's mostly text games, starting in the 1970s:
https://bluerenga.blog/all-the-adventures/
He's up to 1982 now. If you also like this kind of thing, this is a good time to follow along -- he's just about to start a timed playthrough of Roberta Williams' 1982 game "Time Zone", a notably ambitious game for its time: