Adam Thorton wrote: > It's wrong. ADVENT is 1972, or possibly a little bit later. But even > Advent isn't *really* what he's talking about: "Adventure" and "RPG" > are two distinct genres, although they certainly weren't even in the > mid 1980s--_The Book of Adventure Games_ and its sequel, from 1984 and > 1985 respectively, contain not only what are now adventure games, but > also hints and maps for the Wizardry and Ultima games. He's basically > talking about games with randomized combat (although Zork would count > here), and character statistics, some sort of level or power > advancement system (oddly, Zork is still in the running: your hit > points, though hidden from you except in vague terms with DIAGNOSE, go > up, I think, as you score more points, and your chance of hitting the > thief certainly does).
ref: http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html a few recent posts on the subject: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#15 Fast action games on System/360+? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#25 Fast action games on System/360+? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#28 Fast action games on System/360+? the response has earlier time than original message since it was about 8 time-zones away To: wheeler Date: 04/05/78 09:36:19 good morning. you were asking about a game called adventure. if you still want a copy - i hav been promised a copy in few days time so let me know if you still want it ... snip ... From: wheeler Date: 04/05/78 08:08:03 Would appreciate a copy of ADVENTURE. I will be going to TYMSHARE on Friday morning and will try to get a copy from them. (TYMSHARE is a commercial VM service. They also provide the machine, userids, etc. for VMSHARE. When their management found out that ADVENTURE was being offered, they wanted to take it off the system. They changed their minds when they got a look at the books. ADVENTURE is one of TYMSHARE's biggest money makers.) I don't know yet whether they will dump it to tape for me. I'm also going to try and get a VMSHARE userid from them. thxs- Lynn ... snip ... Tymshare had got a PDP-10 copy from Stanford and then ported it to their VM system ... past posts mentioning commercial vm-based timesharing companies http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#timeshare I had gotten a copy of it in the late 70s and made it available internally inside the company ... which resulted in some amount of uproar recent posts for some bbn/imp trivia topic drift http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#9 terminals was: Caller ID "spoofing" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#50 Arpa address http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#3 Arpa address http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#27 PDP-1 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#52 Mainframe Linux Mythbusting http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#42 Why Didn't The Cent Sign or the Exclamation Mark Print? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#44 more secure communication over the network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#8 vmshare misc. other past posts mentioning adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#169 Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#33 Adventure Games (Was: Navy orders supercomputer) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#44 Call for folklore - was Re: So it's cyclical. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#12 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#40 The real history of computer architecture: the short form http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#34 Playing games in mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#49 Adventure game (was:PL/? History (was Hercules)) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#57 Adventure game (was:PL/? History (was Hercules)) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#0 Adventure game (was:PL/? History (was Hercules)) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#1 Adventure game (was:PL/? History (was Hercules)) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#2 Adventure game (was:PL/? History (was Hercules)) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#4 Adventure game (was:PL/? History (was Hercules)) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#20 Whatever happened to IBM's VM PC software? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#45 History of performance counters http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#38 Systems Programming for 8 Year-olds http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#18 Question about Dungeon game on the PDP http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#16 Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#3 Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron recent posts mentioning vmshare and getting process setup to be shipped monthly tape of all vmshare (and then pcshare) files and making them available internally http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#39 another blast from the past http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#2 IBM 610 workstation computer http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#9 It's official: "nuke" infected Windows PCs instead of fixing them http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#3 Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#29 Greatest Software Ever Written? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#11 Was FORTRAN buggy? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#37 REAL memory column in SDSF http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#43 REAL memory column in SDSF http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#65 Paranoia..Paranoia..Am I on the right track?.. any help please? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#22 vmshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#30 vmshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#34 vmshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#38 vmshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#40 vmshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#25 To RISC or not to RISC http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#42 vmshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#48 vmshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#7 vmshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#8 vmshare
