Adventureland: Interview with Scott Adams

As you might know, the original Adventure game was written for a DEC computer by two college students Crowther and Don Woods. It was known as
Colossal Caves Adventure. In 1978 Scott Adams played the game and was fascinated. He then wrote his first adventure game Adventureland for the Radio Shack TRS-80 model Scott computer (16,000 bytes of memory, a Z80 processor, and a cassette drive) in the same year. I had a chance to ask Mr. Adams some questions which he kindly answered below.

1) How did ...