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Originally Posted by wdb
Speaking of ASCII there was another game they had access to. They were programming nerds for GE Aerospace and had mainframe terminals at home. There was a text-based game called "Colossal Cave Adventure." You navigated through the cave using commands such as "GO LEFT", and clues were given after each move such as:
YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING. AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND DOWN A GULLY.
YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT.
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I remember a Commodore 64 game like that where you had to get out of a building before a time bomb went off.