Colossal Cave
The only way out... is in.
You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.
More puzzles than you can shake your gold nuggets at!
Creepy crawlies and other roaming vermin!
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Avast! I’ll crush ye barnacles!
This canyon is a secret. Please don't tell anyone. Shh...
We all need one, from time to time. Am I right?!
ALL the best games have one!
Colossal Cave was designed by Roberta Williams, designer of hit games like the King's Quest series of games, and Phantasmagoria. The game is based on a text game which was introduced nearly 50 years ago, that achieved legendary status.
Still a work in progress, but Ken Williams wanted to pop in for a quick preview of things to come. Take a look!
You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.
More puzzles than you can shake your gold nuggets at!
Creepy crawlies and other roaming vermin!
Avast! I’ll crush ye barnacles!
This canyon is a secret. Please don't tell anyone. Shh...
We all need one, from time to time. Am I right?!
ALL the best games have one!
Colossal Cave was designed by Roberta Williams, designer of hit games like the King's Quest series of games, and Phantasmagoria. The game is based on a text game which was introduced nearly 50 years ago, that achieved legendary status.
Still a work in progress, but Ken Williams wanted to pop in for a quick preview of things to come. Take a look!
This is a short sequence from the Secret Canyon region of the game. This particular sequence was captured on a PC using a mouse to play. Gamepad and keyboard control are also supported. The video demonstrates our implementation of a point and click user interface. A key design goal was to keep the player in control of the action and not bog the play down with long waits, cutscenes, dialog trees, etc.
From the acclaimed creator of the King’s Quest series & Phantasmagoria, Colossal Cave, reimagined by Roberta Williams, is an exciting new action-adventure game that promises to bring you the adventure you’ve longed for. An homage to the original and esteemed classic computing text adventure, Colossal Cave Adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods, Roberta Williams brings a beloved favorite game into the 21st century with meticulous handcrafted art, imaginative environmental creations based on actual caverns, rendering the vast and engaging cave in fully explorable three dimensional art. Immerse yourself in the mysterious and stunning world of boundless caverns and sweeping vistas, underground streams and hidden reservoirs - discover the many lost treasures, ancient civilizations, and encounter friends and foes alike in your quest to uncover the great mysteries of the mammoth cave system. With a non-linear exploration system, it’s up to you to decide how to proceed through Colossal Cave, and how to discover all its secrets. The ability to replay the game many times and still discover new things is what has kept this game in the hearts of generations of gamers for almost fifty years. If you think you know what adventure games are, you might be surprised to find out just how Colossal Cave defines the genre.
Can you not only survive the Colossal Cave, but pass through it, and win all its secrets? Time will tell as you undertake the most exquisite and classic adventure ever - Colossal Cave, reimagined by Roberta Williams!
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I spent so many night awake until all hours of the night playing this on my dad's apple 2c back in 1975,6,7... it is a very rich game and one you will not finish in an hour or a day. This is the game which spawned an entire genre (or 2 or 3): rpgs, text adventures, d & d sims... they all started here.
Colossal cave takes you on a grand adventure underground: dragons, pirates, and other slithery things :) I would not want to spoil it for the uninitiated by giving a blow by blow. I will just say that this is definitely worth downloading! You can't get much more "retro," as this is the first of its kind.
I played Colossal Cave (a.k.a. "Adventure") when it was first developed, back in the 1970s. At the time, it was one of the most fascinating computer games available. And its long life -- and the fact that I'm playing it again almost 40 years later -- support the fact that this is the greatest adventure game of all time.
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