"A shot in the foot" is a very simple text adventure game that I wrote a few years back to illustrate an article in ABC-bladet, the newsletter of the Swedish computer club "ABC-klubben".
Click here to read the article (in Swedish). Adobe Acrobat required.
Anyone with the slightest experience in text adventuring should be able to solve the game within 10 minutes. Beginners can use it as an introduction to some basic things you can do in an adventure game. Try typing things like "look", "look at the table", "look under the table", "inventory", "pick up magazine", "drop magazine", etc. and see what the response will be.
The game was inspired by an anonymous article from the Internet, describing ways to shoot yourself in the foot using some popular computer languages. The full text of that article can be read inside the game if you type "read magazine".
Java Z interpreter courtesy of Matthew Russotto.