Adventure 751 (1980) - Hacker News

anonymousiam 1/3/2026|

Jason Scott (of textfiles.com) made a great documentary video about the Adeventure game. I picked up a copy at DEFCON about 15 years ago.

http://www.getlamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU

5- 1/3/2026||

also of note: the "fifty years of interactive fiction" post series: https://if50.substack.com/archive?sort=top (much discussed on hn)

or in book form: https://if50.textories.com/

condwanaland 1/4/2026||

Cannot recommend this book enough. Absolutely fascinating read

ido 1/3/2026||

Great documentary, highly recomended. Small correction: it's not specifically about the game Adventure but about the genre it spawned, Text Adevntures (later called Interactive Fiction)

ahazred8ta 1/5/2026||

They trimmed the caving term PLUGHole down to 5 letters. O:-)

anthk 1/3/2026||

Collosal Cave at IFDB:

https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=fft6pu91j85y4acv

ZMachine ports. Open them with WinFrotz/Frotz or LectRote.

Spanish translation for the ZMachine https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/spanish/AVE...

English ones.

350 points, Z8 version, for 16 bit machines and up: https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/advent.z8

Adventure, 350 points, Puny Inform version. It will run on 8 bit computers and even the Game Boy:

https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/advent_puny...

golem14 1/3/2026|

What a nice site! I feel I could spend months there and not be bored. Thanks for posting.