Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as Adventure or ADVENT) is a text-based adventure game, released in 1976 by developer Will Crowther for the PDP-10...
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Colossal Cave may refer to: Colossal Cave (Arizona), cave system in Arizona Colossal Cavern, cave in Kentucky Colossal Cave Adventure, 1976 computer game...
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difficult. Colossal Cave Adventure is identified by Rick Adams as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game...
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game was conceived as a graphical version of the 1977 text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure. Warren Robinett spent approximately one year designing and...
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metasyntactic variable or as a video game cheat code. Xyzzy comes from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game, where it is the first "magic string" that most players...
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Interactive fiction (redirect from Text adventure games)
original Interactive fiction Colossal Cave Adventure was programmed in Fortran, originally developed by IBM. Adventure's parsers could only handle two-word...
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with the 3D remake of the classic adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure, released in January 2023 as Colossal Cave. Several publications have named Roberta...
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William Crowther (programmer) (category American cavers)
1936) is an American computer programmer, caver, and rock climber. He is the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure from 1975 onward, a seminal computer game...
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PDP-10 mainframe game Colossal Cave Adventure. It was programmed for Microsoft by Gordon Letwin of Softwin Associates. Microsoft Adventure is a text game in...
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systems Cave, an alternate name for the text-based computer game Colossal Cave Adventure "C*A*V*E", a season 7 episode of the television show M*A*S*H Cave (band)...
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Adventure was inspired from the text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure, and is considered the one of the first graphic adventure and action-adventure...
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or XYZZY may refer to: Xyzzy (computing), a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game, later a metasyntactic variable or a video game cheat...
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Rogue (video game) (redirect from Rogue: The Adventure Game)
was Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as Adventure) (1976) by William Crowther and Don Woods. Adventure, considered the first text-based adventure game...
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create Colossal Cave Adventure, one of the first examples of interactive fiction, based on his caving experiences with Pat in the Mammoth Cave system...
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implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system. The adventure game concept originally came from Colossal Cave Adventure which ran strictly...
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plugh, and plover were magic words in the classic computer adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.) Examples of traditional and modern magic words include:...
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the adventure game Zork, one of the first works of interactive fiction and an early descendant of ADVENT (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure). While...
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Don Woods (programmer) (section Work on Adventure)
programmer. He is best known for his role in the development of the Colossal Cave Adventure game. Woods teamed with James M. Lyon while both were attending...
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vision impaired spanned everything from the earliest text adventure, Colossal Cave Adventure (1976), to the comparatively advanced works of interactive...
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free-roaming exploration of 1976 text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure, which inspired the free-roaming exploration of Adventure (1980), but notes that it was...
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used. Foobar was used as a variable name in the Fortran code of Colossal Cave Adventure (1977 Crowther and Woods version). The variable FOOBAR was used...
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Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1985 video game) (category Adventure games)
menu-driven interface to replace the text-driven interface of adventure games like Colossal Cave Adventure for graphic-enabled computers like the Apple II. Along...
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Zork (redirect from Frobozz Magic Cave Company)
was inspired by Colossal Cave Adventure (1976), the first well-known example of interactive fiction and the first well-known adventure game. The developers...
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Text-based game (section Text adventure)
Don Woods' revision of the 1976 text-based adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure (later renamed to Adventure), which saw expanded gameplay and story and...
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Wander (1974 video game) (redirect from Wander (adventure game))
text adventure written by Peter Langston in 1974. It is one of the earliest text adventure video games in existence, predating Colossal Cave Adventure. The...
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within the Mammoth Cave system, and has references to Colossal Cave Adventure. H. P. Lovecraft's 1905 short story "The Beast in the Cave" (published 1918)...
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Classic Adventure in 1984-1985 and re-released on more platforms.[citation needed] Classic Adventure is a remake of the 1976 text adventure game Colossal Cave...
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Power Adventure!, a 2001 pulp fiction role-playing game by White Wolf Colossal Cave Adventure, also known as Adventure, a 1977 text adventure computer...
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The Cave is a puzzle-platform, adventure game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Sega in January 2013 on the PlayStation Network, Nintendo...
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incorporating narratives to enhance player engagement. Text-based adventures such as Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) and Zork (1980) introduced simple fantasy narratives...
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