It is likely that ELIZA was also on the system where Will Crowther created Colossal Cave ( Adventure ), the 1975 game that spawned the interactive fiction genre.

Foobar was used as a variable name in the Fortran code of Colossal Cave Adventure ( 1977 Crowther and Woods version ).

Inspired by Colossal Cave, Marc Blank and Dave Lebling created what was to become the first Infocom game, Zork, in 1977 at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.

Monster, which comprised about 60, 000 lines of code, had a lot of features which appeared to be designed to allow Colossal Cave Adventure to work in it.

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Xyzzy is a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game.

Modern usage derives primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there.

As Colossal Cave Adventure was both the first adventure game and the first interactive fiction, hundreds of later interactive fiction games included responses to the command " xyzzy " in tribute.

Crowther, author of Colossal Cave Adventure, states that he was unaware of the mnemonic, and that he " made it up from whole cloth " when writing the game.

Zork was one of the earliest interactive fiction computer games, with roots drawn from the original genre game, Colossal Cave Adventure.

In 1975 by Will Crowther created Colossal Cave Adventure on a DEC PDP-10 computer.

The area is known for the nearby Colossal Cave, a large cave system, and the Rincon Mountains District of Saguaro National Park, a top tourism spot within Arizona.

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The game's setting was influenced by the text game Colossal Cave Adventure as well as Dungeons & Dragons, from which most of the monsters were, initially, closely modeled.

* Bandersnatchi: Colossal slug-like creatures, originally created by the Tnuctipun as a food source for the Thrintun.

He is best known as the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure, a seminal computer game that influenced the first decade of game design and created a new game genre, text adventures.

In Will Crowther's Colossal Cave Adventure, Ylem was defined as " Ylem ( a circular file for objects )", a special place index created to accumulate discarded objects that would remain inaccessible for the remainder of the game.

The history of the action-adventure genre began with the text-based Colossal Cave Adventure ( 1976 ), which was the first adventure game ever created.

Adventure games were some of the earliest games created, beginning with the text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure in the 1970s.

The Colossal order was invented by architects in the Renaissance.

The Colossal order is characterized by columns that extend the height of two or more stories.

Many of their members, designed by former Legion artist Dave Cockrum, were based on Legionnaires: Astra ( Phantom Girl ), Electron ( Cosmic Boy ), Fang ( Timber Wolf ), Hobgoblin ( Chameleon Boy ), Impulse ( Wildfire ), Magic ( Projectra ), Mentor ( Brainiac 5 ), Midget ( Shrinking Violet ), Nightside ( Shadow Lass ), Quasar ( Star Boy ), Smasher ( Ultra Boy ), Starbolt ( Sun Boy ), Tempest ( Lightning Lad ) and Titan ( Colossal Boy ).

Virtual worlds date back to the adventure games and simulations of the 1970s, for example Colossal Cave Adventure, a text-only simulation in which the user communicated with the computer by typing commands at the keyboard.

In Colossal Cave, or more simply called Adventure, the player moves around an imaginary cave system by entering simple, two-word commands and reading text describing the result.

The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 black-and-white science fiction film, directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Glenn Langan.

Distributed by American International Pictures ( AIP ) at the top of a program double-bill with The Cat Girl, the film was followed by a sequel, War of the Colossal Beast, which appeared in 1958.

After encountering the original Adventure game ( also called Colossal Cave ), he was fascinated by the concept and — together with Marc Blank, Tim Anderson and Bruce Daniels — set out to write an adventure game with a better parser, which became Zork.

Neil Fallon has provided guest vocals on the songs " Two Coins for Eyes " and " Empire's End " on the 2008 album Beyond Colossal by Swedish stoner rock band Dozer ; " Crazy Horses " ( a cover of a song by The Osmonds ) by Throat ; " Slippin ' Out " by Never Got Caught ; " Mummies Wrapped in Money " by Lionize ; " Fearless Force " for early New York Hardcore band The Mob ; and " Blood and Thunder " by Mastodon on their 2004 album Leviathan.

Ultimately, MTV commissioned three seasons of the show, which was produced by Colossal Pictures.

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The first game to use this system was Colossal Adventure, a faithful conversion of Adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods, yet with 70 extra locations to the end game.

Sword of Fargoal is noteworthy for being one of the first microcomputer games to introduce elements later used by so-called Roguelike games, such as dungeons which are randomly generated for each session of play, and gave a nod to earlier games such as Colossal Cave Adventure which was played without graphics on mainframe computers of the day using TTY terminals.

The film was heavily influenced by 50s fare such as Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Amazing Colossal Man, and The Incredible Shrinking Man.