Colossal Cave Adventure, or just Adventure, is a text-based adventure game created by William Crowther in 1975 and 1976. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don Woods.
It is the first well-known example of interactive fiction and the first well-known adventure game, for which it was also the namesake. It was written in FORTRAN for a DEC PDP-10 minicomputer. See Wikipedia: Colossal Cave Adventure.
Sometime in the late 1970s, I obtained a magnetic tape of the source code for Colossal Cave Adventure. I ported it to compile using FORTRAN V and ran it on a Data General Eclipse S130 16-bit minicomputer with the Data General AOS operating system.
Adventure became a hit with the staff in the Oil & Gas division of BHP Head Office, who used the two Data General minicomputers (S130 and S250) we had at the time.
I actually enjoyed studying the source code more than playing Adventure. The code provided me with some interesting insights into the way others were using FORTRAN.
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