A year or so before you could be eaten by a grue, you could stand at the end of a road before a small brick building, walk inside, and get a lamp. That was the start of Colossal Cave Adventure, the formative text adventure game (and ) written for the PDP-10, back when you could call something a minicomputer if it didn't take up a whole room. Colossal Cave is old enough that it could be (and often was) simply called Adventure—in 1976, no other game had laid claim to that word, yet. Programmer Will Crowther wrote an early version of the game as a fantastical take on the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and later Don Woods expanded the game with more overt Tolkienesque fantasy.At first, the game was only playable on the PDP-10, which was still a huge mainframe, even if it wasn't room sized. But soon enough it was ported to other computers like the Commodore 64 and IBM PC, meaning you could play Colossal Cave on a system that fit on your desk. Now that another 35 years or so have passed, you don't even need that: you can play one of the most formative PC games of all time on your phone, via SMS.All you have to do is text this number: +1 (669) 238-3683.I recently watched a fun talk by programmer Chris Swenson from the North Bay Python conference, in which he walked through the process of taking the 1977 source code for Colossal Cave Adventure and rewriting it in a modern language to run on a server you can talk to via text message. Here's the talk.
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Red Ball 4 at Cool Math Games: Help the red ball to his goal and be sure to knock out all the stars along the way. Watch out for the bad guys! Jumping on them is good. Getting hit by a corner is not.
Star Wars Chess is a lackluster animated chess game similar to Interplay's Battle Chess.The SEGA CD version of the game, released a year later, is better known and better-sold than this rare PC version. Each traditional chess piece (king, rook, pawn, and so on) is represented by a character from the Star Wars movies. Battle Chess official game site; Battle Chess: Game of Kings (modern remake) Rating. What do you think of this game? Please rate it below on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is the lowest and 10 is the highest score.
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