Original source code for Colossal Cave Adventure found
August 15, 2007
If you know or care anything about the origins of video games, this is a great and invaluable discovery. Adventure wasn't exactly the first computer game, but it may be the most influential.
Table 5 [Static Game States]
- 201 THERE ARE SOME KEYS ON THE GROUND HERE.
- 202 THERE IS A SHINY BRASS LAMP NEARBY.
- 3 THE GRATE IS LOCKED
- 103 THE GRATE IS OPEN.
- 204 THERE IS A SMALL WICKER CAGE DISCARDED NEARBY.
- 205 A THREE FOOT BLACK ROD WITH A RUSTY STAR ON AN END LIES NEARBY