1976 · Game
Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)
William Crowther developed the first text adventure on a PDP-10 at BBN in 1975 to 1976. Don Woods expanded it in 1977.
Original had about 66 rooms. Woods's 1977 expansion reached 140 locations and added a scoring system.
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Facts
- Date
- 1976
- Kind
- Game: Text adventure
- Maker or publisher
- William Crowther
- Platforms
- PDP-10
- Genre
- Text adventure
- Format
- Terminal text
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