"Pretty good; there's stuff there even I didn't know!"
— Don Woods
"Playing adventure games without tackling this one is like being an English major who's never glanced at Shakespeare." — Steven Levy.
"Oh! It's very tight. But we have cave!" — Pat Crowther, July 1972
"Adventure" trivia
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Colossal Cave Adventure
The Colossal Cave Adventure game, produced in the '70s, was the historic first "interactive fiction" game, in which the computer would simulate and describe a situation and the user would type in what to do next, in simple English.
The user would thus be a part of an ongoing story in a fantasy setting — in this case, an exploration of Colossal Cave in Kentucky. But this Colossal Cave, though remarkably similar to its real-life counterpart, was also very different:
Magic was afoot in the cave...
You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike...
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| Willie Crowther, Don Woods, and how 'Adventure' came into being. |
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| 'Adventure' for various machines, maps of various versions, walkthroughs |
| Other interesting websites for Adventurers. |
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