Inside Seattle's Real-Life-Room-Escape Boom

Real-life room escape: Trapped in a room with strangers.The video game Zork was released in 1978. It was the primitive kind where you type in your commands—"hit troll" or "drink water"—and get trapped in rooms and have to solve little puzzles to escape. The Legend of Zelda (1986) copped this feature to a degree, then Myst (1993) took it even further, and plenty more followed suit. Eventually, the "room escape" feature became a mainstay of the adventure genre of video games. Then some