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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_adventure http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_adventure implies Adventure was first in "around" 1975, but this blog post say
by wodow 11y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_adventure http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_adventure implies Adventure was first in "around" 1975, but this blog post says WANDER was 1974.
- moron4hire 11y agoOregon Trail was first a sort of text adventure when it was put together in 1971. You didn't navigate rooms, though, so it wasn't exactly the same thing.
- joncameron 11y agoWikipedia is notorious in the video game history community for its lack of accuracy and vague primary sources.
- joshuapants 11y agoI think Wikipedia is notorious for that in general, along with constant subtle bias (of whoever won the pissing contest in the discussion page) in just about every article.
- _delirium 11y agoIn this case, Wikipedia's citation leads (via an intermediate hop) to an academic article that dates Adventure to 1975-76, and argues that a date of 1972, which some other sources had previously mentioned, is incorrect: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/2/000009/000009.html http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/001/2/000009/000009...
- ChuckMcM 11y agoLast I checked Don Woods was at Google so someone there could just ask him.
- yarrel 11y agoIt's a game authoring environment. The example game is from 1977, so earlier games may or may not have been in Adventure style.