Back around 1983, I met my late wife who worked for a company out of Portland Oregon. She was working in the Houston office and sometimes had to work late. She was instrumental in setting up the company network and told me they had a game on the puter “the main frame was in Portland” that very few new about. The name of the game was Star Trek. Oh it had all the right characters, the Romulans, Klingons, the Federation. And you had to navigate through the universe fighting them, again, no mouse, just commands. She told me that whatever I did, don’t ever “roll out”. Well, the Klingons and the Romulans had me cornered, no matter what sector I travelled they followed. I was given many options, fire photons and other weapons or, I could just “Roll Out” and escape. Well I did, and when I did, it shut down the main frame, all the terminals went blank. Needles to say, after several telephone calls to the right people over the course of a few hours, they got the computer main frame back up. I never played that game again.
My roomie in the AF dorm had an Apple IIE. We played a text game of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It was fun but you had better read the book to get through it.
That was some “Roll Out”. Good lord, that’s a heck of a setup!