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

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.

Colossal Cave Adventure, created in 1975 by Will Crowther on a DEC PDP-10 computer, was the first widely used adventure game.

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 addition to the animated series, Goof Troop was adapted into various comic strips, which were printed in several Disney comic books, such as Disney Adventures and Disney's Colossal Comics Collection.

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.

The location of the game in Colossal Cave was not a coincidence.

This phenomenon was addressed in The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide with illustrations comparing Crow to a Necker cube.

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.

Colossal Cave was a year earlier, but on a mainframe, the PDP-10.

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.

While he was working on it, he had discovered and played Crowther and Woods ' Colossal Cave Adventure at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and decided that a graphical video game version " would be really cool ".

Colossal Cave Adventure ( 1976 ), the earliest of a library initially spanning 8 years of speech synthesis | TTS-enabled video games, was first made widely available as an audio game through PlainTalk # Original MacInTalk | MacInTalk in 1984.

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.

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

A programmer for Atari, Warren Robinett, was given the task of transferring Colossal Cave Adventure to the Atari 2600.

Zork < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > predecessor, Colossal Cave Adventure, used bottomless pits to achieve the same result, but when early versions of Zork adopted this practice, it was realized that pits were appearing in unlikely places, such as the attic of a house, and with no corroborating evidence elsewhere ( such as holes in the ceiling or floor in the room directly below ).

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

# Produced by ( Colossal ) Pictures for MTV & BBC-TV

Gifts and purchases from Henry Salt, British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the Colossal bust of Ramesses II in 1818, laid the foundations of the collection of Egyptian Monumental Sculpture.

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.

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.

Colossal statue of a man from the north side of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

Colossal foundations of a temple dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian are still visible: the columns were 21. 35 metres high ( about 70 feet ), while the highest known elsewhere, those at Baalbek in Syria are only 19. 35 metres ( about 63 feet ).

** The Colossal Book of Mathematics ( W. W. Norton & co., 2001 ; ISBN 0-393-02023-1 )

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.

Colossal pilasters set on large bases join the portico and the upper story.

The ranks of the Legion, only hinted at in those first two stories, were filled with new heroes, such as Chameleon Boy, Invisible Kid, Colossal Boy, Star Boy, Brainiac 5, Triplicate Girl, Shrinking Violet, Sun Boy, Bouncing Boy, Phantom Girl, and Ultra Boy.

Most characters resemble their previous counterparts in costume and powers, with the most notable exceptions including Chameleon Boy, now called simply Chameleon and depicted as an androgynous creature, Star Boy, who in this version of the Legion is black, Colossal Boy, who is now a giant who shrinks to human size, and Phantom Girl, who exists in two universes at once and has conversations with people in her own dimension while talking to Legionnaires at the same time.

The other Legionnaires who appeared in this episode included Blok, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy, and Wildfire.