Adventure - First Computer Text Adventure (Crowther/Woods 1972)

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Adventure, aka Colossal Caves, was the first computer text adventure game, created by Will Crowther at BBN on a PDP-1 mainframe computer in 1972. It was later expanded upon by Don Woods at Stanford.

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