Use your imagination

So I liked the text-based adventure game a lot more than the Atari version. I got farther in the Atari version than I did the text-based one, but it wasn't as fun of an experience. Perhaps this is because I've never played a text-based game before, and the whole experience was rather novel. Plus, with the Atari's graphics being what they were, I preferred the setting I came up with in my imagination based off the text's descriptions. Then again, I had a much harder time getting around in the text-based game because I couldn't picture the cave's layout. I ended up finding the chamber with the snake maybe once and then never making it back there because I couldn't figure out how I'd gotten there the first time.
I liked the text-based version mostly because it reminded me of reading a fantasy novel. Still I wonder what the experience would have been like if we'd played the text-based game and then an Adventure video game with today's graphics.