The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

I was there in the 1980s; writing your own Infocom-style text adventure games was a common project among my peers. There are probably lots of unfinished (or even finished-but-unshared) games out there on old floppy disks in closets.

I have a couple of my own, now archived on my home server.

Willing to share them?

I also have a few of those from the 80s but only as notes written on sheets of paper (including many pages of hand-written BASIC and sometimes in various shorthands) because my Atari 800 did not have a cassette drive peripheral with which to save them.

They were fun when they ran for 15-20 minutes, even after keying them in for hours.

I would be, if they weren't so embarrassingly bad!