Jimmy Maher's series on interactive fiction and the history of microcomputers, especially as it applies to interactive fiction, is excellent.
Definitely. I haven't played most of them but I still love to read about their history. There's always so much story behind the stories they wrote!
He-he - the only ones I played were running the old Hunt the Wumpus game described at http://www.filfre.net/2011/05/hunt-the-wumpus-part-2/ . It's amazing; a telnet command and one can time warp to a 1970s-era OS, then run games from that era.