Colossal Cave Adventure · RAWG · Courtesy of RAWG
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Colossal Cave Adventure is an adventure game developed by Will Crowther and published by Will Crowther and Digital Equipment Corporation. The work was released in 1976. It supports single-player game modes.
The game is available on various platforms, including PC, Android, Commodore / Amiga, Atari ST, PDP-11, and PDP-10. It has received a rating of 3.5 from RAWG and a score of 76 from IGDB, based on 8 ratings.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, RAWG, IGDB. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Game data
- Released
- 1976-01-01
- User rating
- 3.50 / 5
- Genres
- Adventure
- Platforms
- PC, Android, Commodore / Amiga, Atari ST
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Game details · IGDB
Colossal Cave Adventure is a text adventure game, developed originally in 1976, by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe. The game was expanded upon in 1977, with help from Don Woods, and other programmers created variations on the game and ports to other systems in the following years. In the game, the player controls a character through simple text commands to explore a cave rumored to be filled with wealth. Players earn predetermined points for acquiring treasure and escaping the cave alive, with the goal to earn the maximum amount of points offered. The concept bore out from Crowther'…
- Released
- 1976
- Genres
- Adventure
- Platforms
- PDP-11, PDP-10
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Will Crowther
- Publisher
- Will Crowther, Digital Equipment Corporation
Source code
Original source code, written in Fortran, from the very first text adventure game in the videogames history (1976). I collected some other goodies from around the internet (maps, walkthroughs...). Even executables for Windows & Mac OS !
Excerpt from the source-code README · 506 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- creative work
- Country of origin
- United States
- Developer
- Don Woods
- Platform
- Commodore 64
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Designed by
- William Crowther
- Image
- You are standing.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- publication date
- 1976-01-01
- input device
- computer keyboard
- Commons category
- Colossal Cave Adventure
- source code repository URL
- github.com/Neko250/adventure
- programmed in
- Fortran
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Colossal Cave Adventure
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