Stratics: Interactive Fiction

Back to when the games had no graphics, no sound and only printed and accepted text. Does anybody remember?

Tagged as The Original Adventure Game, The Colossal Cave, written by Willie Crowther and Don Woods, first appeared on such computers as the PDP11 and the IBM S/360 mainframes. It was originally written in Fortran and was truly the very first online role-playing game. We first saw this text-based game in the early seventies. From there it’s been converted to numerous programming languages, many written languages and translated to several different operating systems.

For those that do remember AND for those that don’t, Stratics has created a new forum site for you to experience a bit of nostalgia… or, in the case of the younger crowd, to see what it was all about and how online gaming as it is known today has truly evolved. You can play this very game right here on Stratics. So get some paper (making a map is essential) and try your hand at playing The Colossal Cave.

If our Stratics Gamers find this to be something enjoyable, we’ll be sure to convert a few more too. One that we’d really like to see is Zork. Remember that one?