The First Text Adventure Game Ever Is Finally Open Source

‘Colossal Cave Adventure’ is due for an update.

Colossal Cave Adventure was the first text-based adventure game—It was developed in 1976 using one of the earliest computer programming languages, at the same time as the earliest version of the internet itself, ARPANET. The game is an important part of both hacking and gaming history, and now, Colossal Cave Adventure's code is online and open source.