When we think of computer games today ... the efficient and accurate transmission of text-based information. Not long after the creation of the first mainframe computers, engineers figured ...

That was the start of Colossal Cave Adventure, the formative text ... games and hardware for more than 10 years, first at tech sites like The Wirecutter and Tested before joining the PC Gamer ...

In 1977, a trio of MIT researchers created the first text-based adventure game for a ... home of the school's only computer. The game offers you descriptions and options while a witty narrator ...

Crowther first released his game on the ARPANET ... his enhanced version in 1977 to widespread acclaim. Tim Anderson, a computer programmer who helped create the popular text-based game Zork in the ...

The release of Heroes Rise as the first-ever text-only game ... starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to ...

"Colossal Cave Adventure," also known as "ADVENT" or simply "Adventure," was a groundbreaking text-based game released ... as one of the first, if not the very first, PC games to ship with built ...

And so early on, many IBM PC game authors sought to hit the widest ... In this astoundingly detailed text-based simulation of mowing a lawn, you are tasked with cutting the grass of a large ...

“Text-based computer games describe their world to the player ... track of under-explored areas in the game space. In the first of two phases — the “exploration” phase — Go-Explore ...

A product of a collaboration between two men who worked together without ever having met in person, the game evokes the simplest text-based computer games of the nineteen-seventies while ...