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Re:Ask HN: Great text based games to play? by medwards666 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:01AM (#34476936)
IIRC 'feelies' was a term coined at Infocom by Brian Moriarty for the extra gewgaws that wound up in the boxes. I don't think the term was used much elsewhere in the industry, even though it did become part of the general gamer vernacular at the time.
Re:Ask HN: Great text based games to play? by ghaff on Sunday January 22, 2023 @03:15PM (#34481751)
I should ask some of the other Infocom folks one of these days. I imagine one of them remember.