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 ...

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.

Back in the very early days of home computers, onscreen imagery was a bit rubbish so text-based adventure games ruled the gaming roost. The Ink Console is aiming to rekindle this retro vibe by ...

The visual effects in Star Trek Into Darkness leave very little to the imagination. And that's the whole point of special effects, right? Through the use of elabora… ...

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.