>Imagine saying that about a modern game.

Took 4 years to find the final scret cheat code in Nier Automata

https://x.com/NieRGame/status/1345725199900155909

And that's just one modern game example, there are many more

I was one of those people. Or months at least along with a group of my high school friends. Most of the infocom games took between a few weeks to a few months of obsessive game play to get through & we played them all.