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Dr Janet Bastiman

I'd encourage you to write your own if only for the learning process that comes with a personal project about which you're passionate.

Back in the day (!) there was a competition for a MUD in less than 16k of source code: andreasen.org/16k.shtml all the submitted entries are available to download and are in a (small) variety of languages. This could be an interesting place to get inspiration.

If my other half hadn't decided to enter this competition I don't think I would have ever got my head into the nuances of C ;)

As far as my favourite games go that's a tough one, most of the early games I played were text based, although there's a special place in my heart for Martello Tower as it was the first game I was allowed to play in school as a reward for finishing my work early :)