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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Action-adventure. Mode (s) Single-player. Adventure is a video game developed by Warren Robinett for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1980 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice and return it to the golden castle.
t. e. An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. [1] The genre 's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative -based media, such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of genres.