I must confess that I have never actually played this game, and I suspect that only few that read this have (hands up everybody that have played it), but as I understand it, it is basically one colossal maze, or at least if not an outright maze, that the main challenge is simply to navigate the cave system without getting hopelessly lost, making maps like the 2nd picture an absolute necessity. It has however later been both expanded, modified and ported to many other systems, and can still be played today, though not in its original version. It was made for and only ran on a mainframe, personal computers still weren’t invented, so there really wasn’t any other options. The game was made by Will Crowther and is based on a real cave system in Kentucky USA. ADVENTURE, later also know as Colossal Cave Adventure or just Colossal Cave. Once in a while it is healthy to reminisce how it all began, and as for adventure games it all began in 1975/76 with a game called.
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