[HN Gopher] Museum of Computer Adventure Game History ___________________________________________________________________ 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: | | > _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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-04-24 23:00 UTC)