Adventure

Adventure Under­ground

The very first text adventure game.

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TODO: Everything. Also, it would be REALLY nice if we could be extra-careful with this page and cite our sources; there's bound to be disagreement and vagueness about what we think we know about this game.

How It Begins

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Notable Features

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Trivia and Comments

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Versions

(This list is very incomplete. It needs to be heavily researched and double-checked. Ideally, we want authors/porters, year of release, platform info, language if not English, and what version was derived from what. Also, a summary or overview of differences between all the versions would be a nice thing to have handy. -- David Welbourn 15:52, 29 May 2006 (EST))

According to Baf's Guide, the game is also known by all these titles: Abenteuer, ADVENT, Adventure in Humongous Cave, Aventura, Aventure, Avontuur, Colossal Adventure - Jewels of Darkness, Colossal Cave, nuntalyli'u, Original Adventure.

Original version

• Adventure (William Crowther; YEAR?; FORTRAN).

The original version was written by Crowther for his two daughters. It's possible that this version has been lost entirely.

What year?

• Baf's Guide lists the release year as 1976.
• According to Compute!'s Guide to Adventure Games by Gary McGath, William Crowther wrote the preliminary version of Adventure in 1975, in FORTRAN, on a DEC PDP-10 computer, and made it available nationwide via ARPAnet.
• IFRO lists the release year as 1972, and the platform as FORTRAN.
• According to A history of 'Adventure' by Rick Adams, in 1972, William and his wife Pat were co-workers for Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Boston. They were also cavers. When the Crowthers' marriage ended, William felt estranged from his daughters, and decided to write for them a computer simulation of his caving experiences combined with elements borrowed from Dungeons and Dragons, a role-playing game that he also had been playing.

Crowther and Woods version

• Adventure (William Crowther and Donald Woods; YEAR?).
  • This version is usually consider the canonial, or standard version of the game.

Hugo port

• Colossal Hugo (porter: Kent Tessman; 1995; Hugo 2.2a).
  • Download colossal.hex from the IF Archive.
  • Download colossal.hug from the IF Archive - the source code.

Lojban port

• nuntalyli'u (Z-code).
  • Download nuntalylihu.z5 from the IF Archive

AAS parody

• ADVENT (Iain Merrick as "Arthur Tavistock Jnr"; 01-Apr-2003; AAS).

See also

• Advent Children Minicomp
• Cave crawl
• Xyzzy

Links

General info

• Adventure (archived) - at Baf's Guide
• The Colossal Cave Adventure Page by Rick Adams.
• Colossal Cave Adventure (c. 1975) by Dennis G. Jerz.
• Colossal Cave Adventure at Wikipedia.
• Download Craft.Of.Adventure.txt from the IF Archive - an essay by Graham Nelson.

Reviews

• Adventure reviews at SPAG; reviews by Graeme Cree and Alex Freeman.
• Adventure - at IFReviews.org

Spoilers

• Download ColossalAdventure.clues from the IF Archive - clue sheet.