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Hunt The Wumpus

Developer	johnhattan
Genre	Adventure
Platform	Windows
Downloads	859
About: The original early-70's era text game "Hunt The Wumpus" converted from BASIC to C and compiled for Windows. Only 30k and every bit as pointless as it was 30 years ago.

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__Daedalus__

Posted - 6/15/2004 10:51:07 AM

I have to admit, John, that I am not a big fan. I am somewhat pleased to add the word "Wumpus" to my vocabulary though! It may be a boon to your project to add a graphical interface so that I can determine what a wumpus looks like.

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Fruny Moderator

Posted - 6/15/2004 10:55:37 AM

Dodecagonal maze.
Crooked arrows.
Wumpus.

What else could you want. FIVE STARS!

__Daedalus__ - Feh, why not a photo of a grue, while you're at it. :)

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cozman

Posted - 6/15/2004 10:56:09 AM

man I used to love this on my TI-82, glad to have you back Wumpus

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ghosted

Posted - 6/15/2004 11:00:18 AM

Dear God almighty, I didn't think anyone else ever had a Texas Instruments. I used to love Hunt the Wumpus, the tension as you fire in a direction and you get that slow arrow traversing the screen and the "boop, boop, boop". I used to get well scared especially when I missed. Shit man thanks for bringing back some fond memories. I'm gonna google for some nostalgiac info.

Anyone else play Parsec or Car Wars?

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johnhattan GDNet Reviews Lead

Posted - 6/15/2004 5:55:10 PM

First a note. I didn't write the original game. This was basically (no pun intended) a test for an old BASIC-C convertor I found. If you hate the game, don't come cryin' to me.

FWIW, I think the most deluxe version of "Hunt The Wumpus" ever was on the TI 99/4A personal computer. It had graphics and everything. There's a remake of the TI version in Java here, but it doesn't seem to work on my machine.

The only canonical picture of a Wumpus appeared in an old Creative Computing Magazine, circa 1971. I've got a reprint of the game in an old "Best of Creative Computing" somewhere. If I find it, I'll post a scan.

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dcosborn

Posted - 10/25/2004 11:55:11 PM

That's so cool. I remember finding source code for that game in a book on BASIC and typing it all in. Thanks for bringing back some good memories.

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