On a happier note, I am going to shamelessly nick the link from
36's journal to
an academic paper about Adventure, the first adventure game - includes an accurate timeline, discussion of how the game developed and lots of pictures of the real cave system the game was based on!
(annoyingly the link runs on a non standard web server port, so some people may have difficulty reaching it)
On the train to and from Manchester on Saturday I played more of
Dreamhold on my Handera 330. Old tech is good - 4 AAA batteries last for weeks, I can pick it up without wondering if the batteries have run down, and save the entire state of the system to CF or SD card :).