It's weird that Zork doesn't feature on such a list, though I'm not sure what category it might hold, as it was a re-imagining of the Colossal Cave Adventure (a

It's weird that Zork doesn't feature on such a list, though I'm not sure what category it might hold, as it was a re-imagining of the Colossal Cave Adventure (also missing from the list). I have two relevant memories from the 1970's - first, my friend's dad brought home a stonkingly large desktop machine. My first experience with an actual, albeit doubtlessly feeble and tedious computer by contemporary standards. I am pretty sure Wumpus (or a clone) was what kept us amused for hours there. Second, a few years later another neighbour - Greg Dubois - employed me to sit and make copies, on a high-speed tape duplicator, of games he'd written for the TRS-80, that he was selling direct to Dick Smith (one of the few retailers of such wares in Australia at the time).