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Gamez.com's collection of Colossal Cave cheats and solutions.
http://gamez.com/games/pc/colossalcave.html
History of the original 'Adventure' by Crowther and Woods, information about the real Colossal Cave, hints, and downloads of various versions of the game.
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/
A place to discuss the Crowther and Woods "Adventure" game in all its various versions.
http://forums.about.com/xyzzy
A homage to some of the more treacherous trails the Colossal Cave contained.
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Colossal Cave Mazes Woods in the archaic tongue of FORTRAN, this mainframe fantasy of the Colossal Cave enticed adventurers from all over the world. Years later, in the paleolithic times of the Apple II, a retelling of the...Forum for discussion of Adventure in its various forms.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/xyzzy/start/
Capsule review. "Adventure is worth playing today for the nostalgia and for the fact that well-designed games never do go out of style."
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Adventure: Colossal Cave Adventure was little more than a treasure hunt game in which the player would solve puzzles, navigate mazes, gather up valuable items, and drop them off in a building, all while killing a few dangerous...Rated -2 on -5 to +5 scale. "If there was a good story to go with it, the first adventure game would have also been one of the best."
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Adventure (350 point) You set off to explore it and collect the treasures, and hopefully live to tell. There's no other background, an no real story it's just a travelogue. There are some beasts to employ or conquer,...Mike Arnautov's site includes A-code language materials, downloads of Mike's two expansions of the original Adventure, and some oter downloads of historical Adventure interest.
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This is Mipmip! It currently consists of the following: Adventure Family Tree as reconstructed by Russel Dalenberg (version 20 March 2004 Some Adventure downloads a small collection of adventures, in which one way or another I feel I...Play online. BSD version (requires Java or Telnet).
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adventure at forkexec.com adventure server play! high scores manual colossal cave Knuth's version finger forkexec uptime email...About the history of the game and examples from some different versions.
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Colossal Cave Adventure (c. 1975) For a game that is so unfair, stylistically inconsistent, and frustrating, it has been tremendously influential. This was the first of its kind using words to create a rich simulated world. Nobody had seen anything...