I never get tired of telling people about my favorite game from that time: Trinity, 1986 Apple 2e, Infocom text game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X8xp-DxhJ8 Believe it or not, a youtube video exists of someone playing this text adventure!
For iOS users, an Infocom pack that includes Trinity:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lost-treasures-of-infocom/id577626745?mt=8 For the rest of us, you can find it downloadable on abandonware sites. Need an emulator thingy.
I know I have seen it in java in a webpage, playable online before, but I cannot find it now. If anyone can locate it, please post a link!!!
This game has the perfect mix of literary literacy, fantastical not-quite-logic puzzles, social commentary, sense of wonder, and sense of urgency and impending doom. "A surge of perambulators..."
I'd like to be in for Blades of Time.
Cheers.