[HN Gopher] Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
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       Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
        
       Author : raleighm
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2020-04-24 03:12 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mocagh.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mocagh.org)
        
       | svat wrote:
       | Related: Donald Knuth's "translation" of the original ADVENT (aka
       | Colossal Cave Adventure aka Adventure) game by Will Crowther and
       | Don Woods, from FORTRAN into CWEB (his "literate programming"
       | extension of C) -- http://literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf
       | (This "woven" PDF is the version that's intended to be read, but
       | if you want to compile it, the `.w` source is linked from
       | https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html -- pass it through
       | ctangle.) From the first page:
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       | > _I remember being fascinated by this game when John McCarthy
       | showed it to me in 1977. I started with no clues about the
       | purpose of the game or what I should do; just the computer's
       | comment that I was at the end of a forest road facing a small
       | brick building. Little by little, the game revealed its secrets,
       | just as its designers had cleverly plotted. What a thrill it was
       | when I first got past the green snake! Clearly the game was
       | potentially addictive, so I forced myself to stop playing --
       | reasoning that it was great fun, sure, but traditional computer
       | science research is great fun too, possibly even more so._
       | 
       | > _Now here I am, 21 years later, returning to the great
       | Adventure after having indeed had many exciting adventures in
       | Computer Science. I believe people who have played this game will
       | be able to extend their fun by reading its once-secret program.
       | Of course I urge everybody to_ play the game first, at least ten
       | times, _before reading on. But you cannot fully appreciate the
       | astonishing brilliance of its design until you have seen all of
       | the surprises that have been built in._
        
       | xfour wrote:
       | Super cool, I'm sure the layout is inspired by the source
       | material but wow is that hard to navigate. I was looking for
       | Hero's Quest of the I just clicked through to the Adams wing,
       | Floor 3, Sierra Online, Other Games (King's Quest get's a section
       | but not the other anthologies), page two, found it! It's like a
       | meta-game in itself.
       | 
       | I imagine the search works fine, but what's the fun in that.
        
       | BelleOfTheBall wrote:
       | Hah, now that's a museum with character! Quite a curious way to
       | structure it and I love the little jokes they insert into the
       | site. Thanking IKEA, that preview image of 'the whole museum'.
       | It's kind of self-disparaging but I'm sure that there are at
       | least a few thousand users on HN alone who revere old adventure
       | games and would consider a museum cataloguing them to be a really
       | cool and important place. It's art and part of global culture so
       | I think this is really important, if a bit niche.
        
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