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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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