Adventure, also known as Colossal Cave Adventure, was the forefather of text gaming. “I had been involved in a non-computer role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons at the time, and also I had been actively exploring in caves Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in particular. The First Text-Based Adventure Game: Colossal Cave. “Suddenly, I got involved in a divorce, and that left me a bit pulled apart in various ways. Beranek and Newman (BBN) in the Boston area, to store topographic data and produce maps of the cave. “Also the caving had stopped, because that had become awkward, so I decided I would fool around and write a program that was a re-creation in fantasy of my caving, and also would be a game for the kids, and perhaps some aspects of the Dungeons and Dragons that I had been playing.” Yet Crowthers adventures in Colossal Cave began even earlier, with his membership in the Cave Research Foundation (CRF) - a group of amateur enthusiasts who worked together to explore and map the hundreds of miles of underground networks in Mammoth Cave National Park, in southwestern Kentucky. About this game arrowforward You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike. My idea was that it would be a computer game that would not be intimidating to non-computer people, and that was one of the reasons why I made it so that the player directs the game with natural language input, instead of more standardized commands. Peter Pears: If you do end up implementing it - though I agree its not top priority, or even top-level priority - Im talking more about a map that completes.

Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave, where others have found fortunes in treasure and gold, though it is rumored. Colossal Cave Adventure was the first computer game I ever played, back in 1979 on my fathers 1mhz IBM clone computer. Original source code, written in Fortran, from the very first text adventure game in the videogames history (1976). I was hooked, making maps and notes, and I never did get it all solved.

Colossal cave map