Infocom

[Anson (Bob) Roberts]

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 
YOU ARE IN A LITTLE MAZE OF TWISTING PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 

YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTING LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 

YOU ARE IN A LITTLE MAZE OF TWISTY PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 

YOU ARE IN A TWISTING MAZE OF LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 

YOU ARE IN A TWISTING LITTLE MAZE OF PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 

YOU ARE IN A TWISTY LITTLE MAZE OF PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 

YOU ARE IN A TWISTY MAZE OF LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 

YOU ARE IN A LITTLE TWISTY MAZE OF PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 

YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF LITTLE TWISTING PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT. 

YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF LITTLE TWISTY PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT.

If this is meaningless to you, stop reading. :>)

If this brings back memories of wasted hours, scrawled maps and mind-stretching puzzles, 
you're in for a treat.

I have the COMPLETE set of Infocom games (with InvisiClues!), 
plus the original Colossal Cave and a slew of fan-made adventures for your pleasure.

They may be found here:
LINK

The password:  EatenByAGrue

Bob

[Anson (Bob) Roberts]

I guess that this is the wrong place for these as well.

In order that I can make room for other new material, this set of files will be deleted from my server on or about September 15, 2015 and this discussion will be closed or removed.

[Tim Szeliga]

I almost flunked out of grad school when I discovered Adventure.

Later a new hire from MIT at Exxon brought along a 9"-tape of Advent.

We worked a lot of unpaid overtime that year.


In the nineties, it was Nethack. I still play to this day.  

No video, just ASCII graphics on the terminal, pure and simple.

[Anson (Bob) Roberts]

I hope my business partner Peter chimes in here. He can tell you stories of Colossal Cave at BBN and later at Stanford, where he often played with his toddler son at his side. He was an ARPANet colleague of both Crowther and Woods. Don't get him started on the "good old days."  :>)

Somewhere deep in my archives, I have a set of the various editions of Colossal Cave with differing point totals and end points. If i can find them (or bother Peter for his probably more complete set), I'll post those in the same folder.