Zork
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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 t
Zork I cover art
Zork being played on a Kaypro CP/M computer
Zork I at the Computerspielemuseum Berlin
M Blank 2018
Colossal Cave Adventure
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Colossal Cave Adventure is a text-based adventure game, released in 1976 by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don Woods. In the game, the player explores
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…piece of interactive fiction. The original game, developed between 1977 and 1979 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was inspired by Colossal Cave Adventure (1976), the first well-known example of interactive fiction and the first well-known adventure game. The developers wanted to make a similar game that…
Colossal Cave Adventure running on a PDP-11/34 with a video display terminal, showing the point system
William Crowther in 2012
Teleprinter computer terminal
C version of the game on an Osborne 1 computer circa 1982