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If you're like me and very interested in the historical side of gaming, this is interesting because it likely dates the game's development from 1975-1976 instead of the usually mentioned 1972 date. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...11230&from=rss
I don't care much about the historical sense, but looking at the code itself is something that excites me.
That's a pretty big discrepancy in the release date. That is pretty interesting, especially since it's such an important game.
How so?
How is it an important game? It's the first adventure game... It's the game the fucking genre is NAMED after.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thief Silver
Ah. Oh. Oh shit.
Then this has become fairly cool. It was way before my time and I've never brushed up on the history of games, nor did I ever care for adventure games until a few years ago :P so sorry for my ignorance.
Wow... an article from Slashdot! They're still around?
I'm also curious if the 1972 release date for Hunt the Wumpus is accurate. It seems like there's so little documentation on mainframe games and the creators often don't remember either.
Wow, he used gotos like they were going out of style (and they were :) )
holy shit do i remember hours being wasted in front of my Texas Instruments playing that game....or was it a Tandy? god that was loooooooong ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
Probably Texas Instruments if you were playing the graphic version. Hunt the Wumpus (text version) sticks out for me as the first game I played on a school computer.