Taylor Patterson

Adventure: Reawakened!

The cave that started it all is back — and for the first time, you can see it and hear it. Before the dungeon crawlers. Before the choose-your-path novels. Before nearly every game that ever asked "what do you do next?", there was one cave and a single line on a screen: "You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building." In 1976, Colossal Cave Adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods invented the text adventure and lit the fuse for interactive fiction, role-playing, and the whole adventure genre. This is the game that inspired Zork and Infocom's classics. Adventure: Reawaken