Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
> news:47d2f829$1@news.povray.org...
>> Gail Shaw wrote:
>>> I've never heard of Colossal cave.
>> AKA "Adventure", aka the first ever computer adventure-style game. (Was
>> it the first game at all?)
> 
> No idea. First one I remember playing was Asteroids (On a Sharp computer)
> sometime around 1984 or so.

Adventure was written in 1976, slightly before Apple went into business 
at all. The wiki article is actually pretty amusing. I have the source 
listing for Adventure 550 in Fortran. :-)

It's certainly the first largely-popular game, in much the same way that 
PONG was pretty much the first big video game.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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