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2. Colossal Cave Adventure - Wikipedia

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   Adventure, interactive fiction. Mode (s) Single-player. 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 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don Woods. In the game, the player explores a cave system rumored to be filled with ...

3. Xyzzy (computing) - Wikipedia

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   Xyzzy (computing) In computing, Xyzzy is sometimes used as a 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 encounter (others include "plugh" and "plover"). [1]

4. Colossal Cave (Arizona) - Wikipedia

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   Colossal Cave (Arizona) Colossal Cave is a large cave system in southeastern Arizona, United States, near the community of Vail, about 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Tucson. It contains about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of mapped passageways. Temperatures inside average 70 °F (21 °C) year-round. [1] Previous names include 'Mountain Springs Cave' and ...

5. Microsoft Adventure - Wikipedia

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   Genre (s) Interactive fiction. Mode (s) Single-player. Microsoft Adventure is a 1979 interactive fiction game from Microsoft, based on the PDP-10 mainframe game Colossal Cave Adventure, and released for the TRS-80, Apple II, and later for the IBM PC. It was programmed for the company by Gordon Letwin of Softwin Associates.

6. William Crowther (programmer) - Wikipedia

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   Patricia Crowther (until 1976), Nancy S. Crowther (married 1980-present) William Crowther (born 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 that influenced the first decade of video game design and inspired the text adventure game ...

7. Zork - Wikipedia

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   Zork is a text adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer.The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded and split the game into three titles—Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz, and Zork III: The Dungeon Master—which were released ...

8. Don Woods (programmer) - Wikipedia

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   Don Woods (programmer) Don Woods in 2010. Donald R. Woods (born April 30, 1954) is an American hacker and computer programmer. He is best known for his role in the development of the Colossal Cave Adventure game.

9. Tim Anderson (programmer) - Wikipedia

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   February 1954 (age 70) Alma mater. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( BSc, 1975; MS, 1977) Occupation (s) Video game designer, computer programmer. Known for. Zork, co-founder of Infocom. Tim Anderson is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating the adventure game Zork, [1] one of the first works of interactive fiction and ...