My 11yo gamer son plays a text adventure for the first time... and asks for another one before bedtime. We stayed up until almost midnight, and I posted these screencasts the next day.

We started with Adam Cadre's "9:05", and continued with the Crowther and Woods classic "Colossal Cave Adventure".

I trimmed about 2 hours of gameplay into 6 10-minute videos. Watching him shift from asking me questions about what will happen in the game, to seeing him reading the text on his own and rather systematically figuring out the game world was quite interesting.