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Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)

Will Crowther

PDP-10 · PDP-11

3.36 from 25 ratings

71 members have it in their collection · 2 playing now · 11 backlogged · 26 wish listed

How long? · 100% 7h (from 1 logged playthrough)

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 … Read more
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's background as a caving enthusiast, with the game's cave structured loosely around the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky. Read less
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Details

Developers
Will Crowther
Publishers
Digital Equipment Corporation, Will Crowther
Genres
Adventure
Themes
Fantasy

Release dates

  • Q1 1976 (Full Release) (North_America) PDP-10
  • 1977 (Full Release) (North_America) PDP-11

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Remakes

  • Colossal Cave (Jan 2023) · LIN, MAC, NSW, PC, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
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Rating distribution

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4 stars
9
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9
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2
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Status scoopings Nov 10, 2021

as frustrating as this game is, after reading about its connections to mammoth cave in kentucky, which I have been to, and about stephen bishop's relation to the cave and its mapping, this, this game is great. yea, text adventures are a liked genre now. yay the chronology experiment strikes again

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