Yep, comment lines from the original Crowther and Woods PDP-10 FORTRAN source code:
C SUSPEND. OFFER TO EXIT LEAVING THINGS RESTARTABLE, BUT REQUIRING A DELAY
C BEFORE RESTARTING (SO CAN'T SAVE THE WORLD BEFORE TRYING SOMETHING RISKY).
Yes. People who wrote games "Way Back Then" (wbt) did not see games as about high scores but as more like life choices. There is no save in life. So adventure and rogue (my poison of choice) were more about how to learn, how to adapt. How to fail gracefully (over and over again). Not that learning any of that is very much fun, but hey, that's life.
[edit misspell games fortunately there is save in HN]
