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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

unsuspecting owner of America’s first commercially-released pornographic computer game. Softporn was the creation of Massachusetts-based programmer Chuck Benton, an unlikely man to herald the ...

“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 ...