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Re:Elite's crazy tokenized string routine by gergoerdi on Monday January 26, 2015 @11:30PM (#8951251)
Using a VM was common for text adventures of the time; check out the Z-Machine used by Infocom games: http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/

Like this game you describe here, the Z-Machine also stored characters in less than one byte, packing three characters (plus an extra control bit) into two bytes (http://inform-fiction.org/zmachine/standards/z1point1/sect03...)

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