50 Years of Text Games: Errata
In the Main Book
- pvii (TOC): In its Table of Contents listing, and in the top-of-page header for its chapter, the article in "El museo de la Consciencias" should be "las"
- px (Acknowledgments): In the list of Crowdfunding Patrons, "Ridzuan Ashim @ridz84" was omitted.
- pxiii (Glossary): In the listing for the Z-machine, the xref year should be 1977, not 1978.
- p31 (The 1970s): In the listing for "Local Call for Death," the xref year should be 1981, not 1980.
- p54 (Hunt the Wumpus): In the reference list, "Strong, C.L." should be "Stong, C.L."
- p125 (The 1980s): In the first paragraph, the xref year for Adventure International should be 1978, not 1979.
- p247 (The 1990s): The phrase "from Richard Bartle's original" should read "from Trubshaw and Bartle's original"
- p299 (Curses): The phrase "first Graham Nelson's game" should read "Graham Nelson's first game".
- p418 (The Fire Tower): Typo: "knowledegable" for "knowledgeable"
- p423 (The Fire Tower): The xref year for Photopia should be 1998, not 1999.
- p488 (The 2010s): In the sidebar, the xref year for "The Sumerian Game" should be 1963, not 1971.
- p488 (The 2010s): In the sidebar, the xref year for Fallen London should be 2009, not 2019.
- p493 (The 2010s): In the games listing for 2018, "I.A.G. Alpha" should be on a single line (ebook only) and the game is from a Ukrainian, not Russian, author.
- p606 (Scents & Semiosis): Typo: "chaneling" for "channeling"
In Further Explorations
- p20 (One Room Games): In the sidebar, the game "69,106 Keys" should be "69,105 Keys"
- p20 (One Room Games): In the sidebar, "Lime Ergot" is listed twice
- p24 (One Room Games): The phrase "from 2002 and 2010" should be "from 2002 to 2010"
- p25 (Planetfall): The phrase "less more its mazes" should be "less for its mazes"
- p29 (Planetfall): In the "Funny Feelies" box, "fouth-wall" should be "fourth-wall"
- p45 (Hacking Simulators): The phrase "fictional back account" should be "fictional bank account"
- p51 (Timeline): In the entry for 1989, "Nintento" should be "Nintendo"
- p54 (Timeline): In the entry for 2002, the entry "The Nitfol z-code interpreter for JavaScript, by Thomas Thurman and Eric Liga" should read "The Gnusto z-code interpreter for JavaScript, by Marnanel Thurman and Eric Liga", and an entry for Nitfol should be added to 1999.
- p54 (Timeline): In the entry for 2005, "written in a early" should be "written in an early"
If you find additional mistakes in the print or digital version of 50 Years of Text Games, please so I can list them here and correct them for future editions!
A note on links: the 50 Years book includes nearly a thousand references, many of which are to online content. Websites are unfortunately highly ephemeral, and even before the book's publication date many of these links had become dead. Keeping all these reference links updated in perpetuity is out of scope for me, but you can do what I did while researching, and make use of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which often will have captured a snapshot of the page before it went away.
This is a longwinded way of requesting that you not send dead links as errata (although if you find dead links on this website, please do let me know about them).
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