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<table style="width:100%;margin-bottom:1em;clear:both"><tr><td>{{adventure}} {{underground}}</td></tr></table>
The very first text adventure game.
{{game stub|Everything. Also, it would be REALLY nice if we could be extra-careful with this page and cite our sources; there's bound to be disagreement and vagueness about what we think we know about this game.}}
How It Begins
You might be anyone. You are standing in the forest, outside a small brick building which is a well-house for a spring. Inside the building, you can easily find some keys, tasty food, a shiny brass lamp, and an empty bottle. If you explore the surrounding area, you will discover a locked steel grate set in a depression. You have no obvious goals, but you might want to open the grate and explore underground.
Notable Features
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Trivia and Comments
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Versions
(This list is very incomplete. It needs to be heavily researched and double-checked. Ideally, we want authors/porters, year of release, platform info, language if not English, and what version was derived from what. Also, a summary or overview of differences between all the versions would be a nice thing to have handy. -*David Welbourn? 15:52, 29 May 2006 (EST))
According to Baf's Guide?, the game is also known by all these titles: Abenteuer, ADVENT, Adventure in Humongous Cave, Aventura, Aventure, Avontuur, Colossal Adventure *Jewels of Darkness, Colossal Cave, nuntalyli'u, Original Adventure.
Original version
- Adventure (William Crowther?; YEAR?; FORTRAN).
- {{ifarchive|games/source/adv_crowther.zip|adv_crowther.zip}} *Long believed lost, this was found from a backup of Don Wood's student account thanks to the efforts of Dennis Jerz?. Included are three versions of the Fortran-IV source code, along with two versions of the data file. Also included are Fortran-77 versions of the source code, converted to Fortran-77 by Matthew Russotto?.
The original version was written by Crowther for his two daughters.
What year?
- Baf's Guide lists the release year as 1976.
- According to Compute!'s Guide to Adventure Games? by Gary McGath?, William Crowther wrote the preliminary version of Adventure in 1975, in FORTRAN, on a DEC PDP-10 computer, and made it available nationwide via ARPAnet.
- IFRO? lists the release year as 1972, and the platform as FORTRAN.
- According to [http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html A history of 'Adventure'] by Rick Adams?, in 1972, William and his wife Pat were co-workers for Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Boston. They were also cavers. When the Crowthers' marriage ended, William felt estranged from his daughters, and decided to write for them a computer simulation of his caving experiences combined with elements borrowed from Dungeons and Dragons?, a role-playing game? that he also had been playing.
- Wikipedia doesn't attempt to date the original, noting only that Crowther was a caver in 1972, and that the Don Woods version was written in 1976.
- [http:jerz.setonhill.edu/if/canon/Adventure.htm Colossal Cave Adventure (c. 1975)] by Dennis G. Jerz?, notes that sources set the date anywhere from 1968 to 1977. Also: "In response to an e-mail query, Crowther put it at 1975, 'give or take a year'." In [http:brain.lis.uiuc.edu:2323/opencms/export/sites/default/dhq/vol/001/2/000009.html Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave], Jerz argues "...Crowther wrote the game during the 1975-76 academic year and probably abandoned it in early 1976", with the Woods version released in early 1977.
Crowther and Woods version
Gillogly version
- Adventure (porter: Jim Gillogly?; c.1976; C for UNIX).
- (see Jerz page for more info; I need to double-checked/verified this)
Software Toolworks version
Z-code ports (350 points)
History of this version, according to its source code:
- 2. Adapted to Inform 5: 17.5.94 to 24.5.94
- 3. Modernised to Inform 5.5 and library 5/12 or later: 20.12.95
- 4. Modernised to Inform 6 and library 6/1 or later: 11.11.96
- 5. A few bugs removed and companion text rewritten: 9.12.96
- 6. Some very minor bugs indeed removed: 24.02.1997
- 7. And another two: 04.09.1997
- 8. Source reformatted and very minor bug removed: 02.09.2004
- 9. Added teleportation, also minor bug fixes: 21.03.2006
Spanish translation (350 points)
German translation (350 points)
French translation (350 points)
- Aventure (translator: Jean-Luc Pontico?; 25-Jan-2001; Z-code; French).
- Release 0 / Serial number 000531 / Inform v6.14 Library 6/10 D
- {{babel wanted}}
- Based on Z-code port by Graham Nelson. Translator's name not in the version info.
- Release date taken from the source file comments; see <tt>french2.1.zip</tt> at [http://jlpo.free.fr/telechargement.php Inform 6 en français].
- {{ifarchive|games/zcode/french/|aventure.z5}}
Dutch translation (350 points)
- Avontuur: Het Interactieve Origineel (translator: Yuri Robbers?; 2002; Z-code; Dutch?).
- Release 8 / Serial number 020822 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 (Dutch) SD
- {{babel wanted}}
- Based on Z-code port by Graham Nelson.
- {{ifarchive|games/zcode/dutch/|Avontuur.z5}}
Lojban translation (350 points)
- nuntalyli'u (main translator: Nick Nicholas?; updating translators: Jay Kominek? and Eugene Mayes?; implementor and final translator: Robin Lee Powell?; 02-Nov-2002; Z-code; Lojban?).
- Release 5 / Serial number 961209 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/9 SD
- {{babel wanted}}
- Based on Z-code port by Graham Nelson. Note that the serial number is unchanged from Nelson's. Date of port determined from source file downloaded at time of release. Inexplicably, the lojban tiki lists 1991 as the year when Nicholas translated the text, suggesting that the original translation effort pre-dates Nelson's port.
- {{ifarchive|games/zcode/|nuntalylihu.z5}}
- [http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Colossal+Cave Colossal Cave] at the lojban.org tiki.
Swedish translation (350 points)
- Äventyr (porter: Fredrik Ramsberg?; 11-Nov-2007; Z-code; Swedish?).
- Release 1 / Serial number 071029 / Inform v6.31 Library 6/11 (Swedish)
- {{babel|ifid=78B5816F-2F79-CE0B-633D-6D95EC06154E}}
- Based on Z-code port by Graham Nelson.
- {{ifarchive|games/zcode/swedish/|Aventyr.z5}} *The story file.
- {{ifarchive|games/source/inform/swedish/|Aventyr.inf}} *The source code.
- Or [http://microheaven.com/if/sweplay/ play it online].
Hugo port (350 points)
- Colossal Hugo (porter: Kent Tessman?; 1995; Hugo? 2.2a).
- {{babel wanted}}
- {{ifarchive|games/hugo/|colossal.hex}}.
- {{ifarchive|games/source/hugo/|colossal.hug}} *the source code.
- According to the game's own help menus, this Hugo port is based on the Inform port by Graham Nelson.
GINAS port (350 points)
- Adventure (porter: Jeff Standish?; 1995; GINAS? 0.4b).
- {{ifarchive|interpreters-other/ginas/|ginas04.zip}}. (in GINAS source distribution)
- This GINAS port is based on the Inform port by Graham Nelson.
AAS parody
ADRIFT port (350 points)
See also
Links
General info
Reviews
Spoilers
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