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Hezarin
1980
Hezarin
1980
Hezarin is a text-based adventure developed in 1980 by Steve Tinney, Alex Shipp and Jon Thackray.BASIC Computer Games
1978
BASIC Computer Games
1978
BASIC Computer games is a compilation of type-in computer games in the BASIC programming language for microcomputers. It features 101 text-based games of various genres, collected by David Ahl of Creative Computing. This revision of the book was released in October 1978.Hunt the Wumpus
1973
Hunt the Wumpus
1973
star 4Hunt the Wumpus is an early computer game, based on a simple hide and seek format featuring a mysterious monster (the Wumpus) that lurks deep inside a network of rooms. It was originally a text-based game written in BASIC and has since been ported to various programming languages and platforms including graphical versions. The original text-based version of Hunt the Wumpus uses a command line text interface. A player of the game enters commands to move through the rooms or to shoot "crooked arrows" along a tunnel into one of the adjoining rooms. There are twenty rooms, each connecting to three others, arranged like the vertices of a dodecahedron or the faces of an icosahedron (which are identical in layout). Hazards include bottomless pits, super bats (which drop the player in a random location, a feature duplicated in later, commercially published adventure games, such as Zork I, Valley of the Minotaur, and Adventure), and the Wumpus itself. The Wumpus is described as having sucker feet (to escape the bottomless
