Winchester's Nightmare

I finally got around to playing Winchester's Nightmare, and I have to say that I'm not very impressed. I agree with thenewblack that the context provided made some of the wandering more bearable. However, I would inevitably hit a point where I was stuck doing the same things over and over again, trying to figure out what I had missed. To be fair, I'm not exactly a gamer, so people who were better at Zork and Adventure might have a more rewarding experience with Winchester's Nightmare than I did. It seemed comparable to Zork and Adventure as a game. As interactive fiction, however, I think Winchester's Nightmare fell short. From my perspective, anything that requires a reader/player to solve a puzzle before he or she can access the next plot point is a game rather than a story, literary language and attention to plot notwithstanding.