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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 treasure and gold.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Colossal Cave may refer to: Colossal Cave (Arizona), cave system in Arizona. Colossal Cavern, cave in Kentucky. Colossal Cave Adventure, 1976 computer game based on Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. Colossal Cave (video game), 2023 reimagining of the 1976 video game.
Colossal Cavern is a cave in Kentucky, United States, the main entrance of which is at the foot of a steep hill beyond Eaton Valley, and 1.5 miles from Mammoth Cave. [1] It is connected with what has long been known as the Bedquilt Cave. Several entrances found by local explorers were rough and difficult.
Colossal Adventure is an expanded version of the original Adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Over 70 additional locations were added. Development and release Opening screen of Colossal Adventure for MS-DOS. Colossal Adventure was the first commercial game from Level 9.