Comment by ChristopherDrum

As a side-note to the Scott Adams interpreter and the struggle of writing in BASIC, it should be noted that Scott Adams's original work was in fact in BASIC. He published that source code in BYTE Magazine, should anyone wish to poke around and see what was required to get a game and parser working.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-12/page/n193/...