In 1977, a trio of MIT researchers created the first text-based adventure game for a DEC mainframe and eventually ported it to the earliest PCs.

It all starts with an Adventure.In the late 70s, the first real text-based game, Colossal Cave Adventure, was burning up the very limited interconnected networks of ARPANET, which was the ...

I asked Gemini to play a text-based adventure game with me and the AI whisked me away to a word-based fantasy. News. By Lance Ulanoff published 9 March 2025 It's like Zork but more earnest.