Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and William Thrasher discuss Mystery House, the first adventure game released by Sierra. The publisher's original name was On-Line Systems.

A revolutionary graphic adventure with a text parser interface, Mystery House weaves a half-assed story inspired by Agatha Christie's novel Ten Little Indians with a few oddball puzzles to boot. The words the parser understands are peculiar, the art by designer Robert Williams is rather childish, but the murder mystery aspect has some suspenseful elements that still work today.

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Mystery House (1980)