Adventure

Will Crowther · 1976 · Mainframe

A caver and programmer mapped Kentucky cave passages into a text world of twisty little mazes, all alike. Don Woods expa...

Infocom · 1980 · PC

MIT hackers turned the cave idea into the Great Underground Empire with a parser that felt conversational. It sold hundr...

Lucasfilm Games · 1990 · PC

Guybrush Threepwood wants to be a pirate, and insult swordfighting plus the SCUMM engine point and click interface carri...

Cyan · 1993 · PC

Robyn and Rand Miller island of linking books became the killer application that sold CD-ROM drives, the best selling PC...

Sega AM2 · 1999 · Dreamcast

Yu Suzuki weather systems, daily NPC schedules and a Yokosuka you could inspect drawer by drawer cost a reported 47 mill...

thatgamecompany · 2012 · PlayStation 3

Wordless cooperative wandering with anonymous strangers over desert dunes moved players like few games before. Its sound...