Hunt the Wumpus is a text-based adventure game developed by Gregory Yob in 1973. In the game, the player moves through a series of connected caves, arranged as the vertices of a dodecahedron, as they hunt a monster named the Wumpus. The turn-based game has the player trying to avoid fatal bottomless pits and "super bats" that will move them around the cave system; the goal is to fire one of their "crooked arrows" through the caves to kill the Wumpus. Yob created the game in early 1973 due to his annoyance at the multiple hide-and-seek games set in caves in a grid pattern, and multiple variations of the game were sold via mail order by Yob and the People's Computer Company. The source code to the game was published in Creative Computing in 1975 and republished in The Best of Creative Computing the following year.
The game sparked multiple variations and expanded versions and was ported to several systems, including the TI-99/4A home computer. It has been cited as an early example of the survival horror genre, and was listed in 2012 on Time's All-Time 100 greatest video games list. The Wumpus monster has appeared in several forms in media since 1973, including other video games, a novella, and Magic: The Gathering cards.
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IRC bot joining the room to conduct the game. Trivia question & answer games are most prevalent. A historic example is HunttheWumpus. Chatroom-based...
HunttheWumpus for the HP-41C. Few other games exist for the earliest of programmable calculators (including the Hewlett-Packard 9100A, one of the first...
Scientific American in December 1964, under The Amateur Scientist. His one published game, HunttheWumpus (1975), written while he was attending University...
computer games, Star Trek (1971) and HunttheWumpus (1973), also had enemies. Enemy movement was based on stored patterns. The incorporation of microprocessors...
branch of the space trader tree, having been inspired by HunttheWumpus, the board game Risk, and the original space trader, Star Trader. As a pure space...
that featured elements of exploring maps or solving puzzles, such as HunttheWumpus (1973), but lacked a narrative element, a feature essential for adventure...
the period include the tactical combat game Star Trek (1971) by Mike Mayfield, the hide-and-seek game HunttheWumpus (1972) by Gregory Yob, and the strategic...
1982, TI Invaders was listed as one of the top-selling computer games for the TI-99/4A along with HunttheWumpus. Review in MC Microcomputer (Italian)...
under the name Maze Runner in Softdisk's Big Blue Disk #26 released in December 1988. The Thing is a port of HunttheWumpus for MS-DOS. Beyond the Titanic...
adaptation of the film The Andromeda Strain; games, such as a version of the Star Trek text-based campaign game, "Twonky" (a version of HunttheWumpus), and...
of theHunttheWumpus style. Most programs were written in assembly language. Signetics sold 2650-based microprocessor development boards, first the PC1001...
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spread through the game. Finally, the game also included a feature from the classic HunttheWumpus: in certain locations the game would tell the user about...
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