The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will
Crowther on the {PDP-10} in the mid-1970s as an attempt at
computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented
game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the
authors of {INTERCAL}.) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal
Cave Adventure, but the {TOPS-10} operating system permitted only
six-letter filenames in uppercase. See also {vadding}, {Zork}, and
{Infocom}.
Figure 1. Screen shot of the original ADVENT game
Orange River Chamber
You are in a splendid chamber thirty feet high. The walls are frozen rivers of
orange stone. An awkward canyon and a good passage exit from east and west
sidesof the chamber.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {CPU Wars}{diddle}{I see no X here.}{plugh}{vadding}{wumpus}{xyzzy}{Zork}]