[Tutor] python text adventures question

[R. Alan Monroe]

>>> I just ran into the following link; it's a tutorial on writing
>>> adventure games (circa 1983):
>>>
>>>    http://www.atariarchives.org/adventure
>>>
>>> Would anyone be interested in "porting" the examples over from BASIC to 
>>> Python?  It might make a fun project for us here on Tutor; a few of us 
>>> appear to have been exposed to Basic in our past lives... *grin* Any 
>>> takers?

> Hi Pete,

> Unfortunately, not to my knowledge: there may be people on the list who've 
> done this privately though.  I'll CCing tutor at python.org to see if anyone 
> else has looked at this.  Personally, I haven't had the time because of 
> grad school committments.

I have done a simple conversion of a similar BASIC text adventure.
By following the layout of the BASIC code, I got a working, but very
un-pythonic program :)  If the mood strikes me someday, I would like
to go back and pythonicise it.

Alan