Hobbit - The True Story is a parody of The Hobbit. In this parody Elrond wants to invade the Shire and enslave the Hobbits. The game starts with Bilbo Baggins, Thorin II Oakenshield, who's addicted to drugs and is in search of treasures to buy more drugs, and Gandalf, who's making a spell that makes Hobbits explode. The entire game …

Hobbit: The True Story is a tiny adventure, spoofing Tolkien's classic children's book. The game also is one of the first text adventures implemented completely using DOS batch files. You enter your commands at the trusty "C:\>" DOS prompt. Each verb corresponds to a batch file with objects passed as arguments, and the game's state is stored in environment variables. …