How Warren Robinett Made Adventure on the Atari

by Warren Robinett An unpublished book manuscript from the dawn of the video-game age (written in 1983-84). Chapter 1: The First Video Games Spacewar. Atari. What Is a Video Game? Chapter 2: The First Text-Based Adventure Game: Colossal Cave A Text Dialogue. Direction Verbs, Action Verbs, and Nouns. Active Creatures. Gathering Treasure. Characteristics of Colossal Cave. Chapter 3: Adventure As a Video Game: Adventure for the Atari 2600 Player Input. Objects. Creatures. Mazes. The Blue Labyrinth. The Red Maze. Catacombs. The Catacombs Inside the Black Castle. Chapter 4: Adventure as an Educational Simulation: Rocky's Boots Building Machines in an Adventure Game. Circuit Components. Kicking Targets. An Interactive Tutorial. Interactive Graphical Simulation. Chapter 5: Getting Ideas Idea Book. Advice to the Game Designer. Chapter 6: Spaces Zoom. 3-D. Adventure Game Real Estate. Player as Perceiver. Chapter 7: Creatures Chasing and Fleeing. Simulated Behavior. ... Read full article.