I found playing Zork and Adventure interactive game very difficult. There is no map or hint that I can discover. I spent hours trying to go around the forest, the house, the river and seem to just go around in endless circle. At least in Zork I am able to gather leaves, eggs, and nest. I cannot gather branches to make fire, nor can I climb down the canyon, even though the game says it is possible to climb down. There is obviously more to this game or else people wouldn’t be so addicted to it, but it is very difficult to discover more of the surrounding when you are limited to a limited set of text commands. The humorous thing about the game is when you started jumping repeatedly the narrator mocks you, that is about all that I discover. So maybe if there are more tips someone can offer me to make the game more interesting that will be great.
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I’ve posted an annotated walkthrough of the first part of Adventure, that gets you past one of the more confusing puzzles.
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/gallery/adventure/index.html
In the 1970s, when these games were cutting-edge, most people who used computers were programmers, which meant that they were used to typing something, waiting for the computer to respond, and then typing it over again slightly differently, in order to get what they wanted.
One reason why these early games were so addictive is because they represented a huge breakthrough in the kinds of games that people were used to playing — tic-tac-toe or variations of Battleship. Using something that resembled natural English in order to communicate with a computer was a rare and powerful experience in the 70s.
If you search Google for “zork walkthrough” you’ll find plenty of hits that will help you through the game.