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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.
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]
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 ...
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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 ...
Colossal Cave (Arizona) Coordinates: 32°03′54″N 110°37′51″W. Postcard c. 1940s. 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 ...
Later that year, William would go on to create Colossal Cave Adventure, one of the first examples of interactive fiction, based on his caving experiences with Pat in the Mammoth Cave system as a way to connect with his daughters after the divorce. Pat first encountered the game at a Boston meeting of the Cave Research Foundation in 1976 or 1977 ...
Colossal Cave. 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.