In ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine...
Geoffrey Golden reminisces about being thwarted and terrorized by text adventure games as a child. As an adult, I still feel the same way, so this spoke to me.
Read the sad tale in the zine: https://willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-issue-7
Who is Geoffrey Golden? He is the person behind Adventure Snack, a really brilliant newsletter full of miniature interactive fiction games like Meet Local Cyclops in Your Area and Your DVD VCR Combo Player Was Stolen. Basically, they're the best.
Adventure Snack: https://adventuresnack.substack.com/