Colossal Cave Adventure
Released in 1976 on Mainframe, adventure.
- Year: 1976
- Platform: Mainframe
- Genre: Adventure
- Developer: Will Crowther
Overview
A caver and programmer mapped Kentucky cave passages into a text world of twisty little mazes, all alike. Don Woods expanded it across ARPANET, and every adventure game, text or graphic, descends from this FORTRAN code.
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