Play the first ever text adventure game in your Linux terminal

I ran the game and when I `suspend`ed it, it said:<p><pre><code> I can suspend your adventure for you so you can resume later, but you will have to wait at least 45 minutes before continuing. </code></pre> It definitely enforces it:<p><pre><code> This adventure was suspended a mere 1 minute ago. Even wizards have to wait longer than that! </code></pre> Does anyone know the motivation behind that design choice?<p>It&#x27;s especially weird since the README encourages suspending the game every half hour or so.

For a slightly modernized take, there is a graphical remake by Roberta Williams&#x27; company Cygnus Entertainment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.colossalcave3d.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.colossalcave3d.com</a><p>Probably not the kind of thing that will be a hit with most current gamers, but it is an interesting and surreal project.

While developing our new from-scratch Fortran compiler (LLVM Flang), getting the original Adventure game’s sources to compile was a key milestone for me, and I got lost in it for hours once it worked. Lots of great memories!

If you want to play it on macOS, you can install it through Homebrew:<p><pre><code> brew install open-adventure </code></pre> then to run it type:<p><pre><code> advent</code></pre>

Is included on linux distros since a lot of time so there is no need to recompile it from source. I tried the game on console many years ago, but I remember it as boring wandering, basically. I never finished it.

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Couple of things: 1) the writeup says this has been written in Fortran but the files in the gitlab are .c&#x2F;.h. Was it rewritten in C at some point? 2) no one&#x27;s ported this to a browser version yet? WASM maybe? Sounds like a fun project.

Wow, that brings back memories!<p>Back in the day (that&#x27;s 40+ years ago), I played this so many times. Forerunner to speed running: I tried to optimize the number of moved required to finish the entire game.<p>From &quot;advent&quot; to D&amp;D to other RPGs...

Wump is a better adventure. :)