Adventure

Adventure, originally ADVENT because of name length restrictions on the PDP/10 that it was written on, was written in Fortran in 1975 by Will Crowther. It was later extended by Dan Woods while he was a student at Stanford. I first encountered it in 1976. At the time I was at ACCK and we have recently installed a new flashy computer system from Harris Computer Systems. The model that we were installing had a rough initiation and we took initial delivery on an earlier model until our system could be finished. There were problems even after that and the long and the short of it was that we had a fairly regular stream of hardware and software engineers that made their way to central Kansas. One of them brought a copy of Adventure with them on a 9-track reel to reel tape. Yep, that old here.

In 2010 a movie, Get Lamp was released that recapped the history of IF. The title is in reference to one of the first tasks that an adventurer accomplishes, getting a lamp to light the way.

You can play any, or all, of several versions of the program here.

This is one of several original 350 point games: Adventure
It was modified by Dan Woods to a: 440 point version
Further modified to about 550 pts: 550 point version 551 point version
And extended beyond all recognition to around 1000 pts: Humongous Cave version

Reference:
Colossal_Cave_Adventure

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