Dungeon
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This isn't the game that started the Adventure Game craze, the
"Colosal Cave Adventure" started that. However, this is the game that
spawned commercial computer games around 1980.

When this game appeared at work, seemingly everyone stayed into the
evening and was amazed at the detail and puzzles. Forget Myst. This
game stretches the imagination and has interesting puzzles.

As was customary at the time, computer games were free. The source
code for this one bears an Infocom copyright, however it allows free
noncommercial distribution. I obtained it in 1991 and compiled it for
MS/DOS. Of course it will run under Windows! The program was written
in Fortran, and I'm not providing the source, lest it spoil the game!

Back around 1980, the folks at Infocom wrote a game interpreter and
rewrote Zork to run on it, making it possible to play the game on
Apples, TRS-80's, CP/M boxes, and other systems of the day rather
than being limited to mainframes. THIS program is the original
mainframe version. It is equivalent to Zork I + about half of Zork II
+ the endgame of Zork III.

If by some chance the only version of the game you ever played was on
a mainframe, this version may be somewhat of a treat as it is the
last mainframe version and has the Bank of Zork and Maze puzzles
which didn't appear in early versions.

Spoiler:

map (from 1982)  Thanks to Jeremy Kapp for providing this...

From: <https://almy.us/dungeon.html>

See Also
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Zork I FAQs
<gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/gamefaqs/pc/zork-i/>

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