http://laughingsquid.com/atari-2600-pitfall-berzerk-venture/ art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:11:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://laughingsquid.com/atari-2600-pitfall-berzerk-venture/comment-page-1/#comment-65730 Laughing Squid » Zork Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:06:29 +0000 http://laughingsquid.com/atari-2600-pitfall-berzerk-venture/#comment-65730 [...] Recently I’ve been reminiscing about some of the early video games I played, including Adventure. Adventure was a video game adaptation of the classic text-based computer game Colossal Cave Adventure (often just called Adventure), which was followed by the immensely popular computer text adventure game Zork. Zork was written by four MIT programmers on DEC PDP-10 and was originally called Dungeon. The term Zork was a MIT hacker word for an unfinished program, which fit perfectly, since you were always in the process of completing the game by making decisions based on text input. get sword… swing sword… kill troll with sword… [...] [...] Recently I’ve been reminiscing about some of the early video games I played, including Adventure. Adventure was a video game adaptation of the classic text-based computer game Colossal Cave Adventure (often just called Adventure), which was followed by the immensely popular computer text adventure game Zork. Zork was written by four MIT programmers on DEC PDP-10 and was originally called Dungeon. The term Zork was a MIT hacker word for an unfinished program, which fit perfectly, since you were always in the process of completing the game by making decisions based on text input. get sword… swing sword… kill troll with sword… [...]

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