Hunt the Wumpus
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.
Basic Information
- Category: sequential game
- Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/wumpus/
Documented Facts
- Email: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
- Website: http://www.catb.org/~esr/wumpus/ (No linked source recorded for this statement.)
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- Hunt the Wumpus — Official Site (official)
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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.
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