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4 unusual facts about Colossal Cave Adventure


Colossal Cave

Colossal Cave Adventure, a 1976 computer game based on Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky

Colossal Cavern

Co-written by Will Crowther, a caver who spent many hours helping to survey the cave and appropriately called "Colossal Cave", the computer game became the inspiration for the classic game Adventure.

James Gillogly

Gillogly wrote a chess-playing program in the Fortran programming language in 1970, and in 1977 he ported the code for "Colossal Cave" from Fortran to C.

Roof and tunnel hacking

The word comes from MIT where, for a time in the late 1970s, some of the student population was addicted to a computer game called ADVENT (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure).



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