![]() Throughout the first half of the 80s, multiple Infocom titles, selling at $40 each, could be found on the Top 10 selling software chart each month. In 1980, Scott Adams would release Adventureland (having more than titular similarity with the original Adventure), the first computer game to be sold to the general public, thus igniting the computer game industry. However, It wasn’t until a group of students at MIT, who had developed a sprawling text adventure with an advanced parser called ‘Dungeon’, that the genre began to mature. The creators of Dungeon would go on to form Infocom – the most influential Interactive Fiction software company of the 80s, and Dungeon would sell millions of copies distributed as the classic Zork trilogy. In 1976, a re-worked and improved version by Don Woods was released onto university networks and the text adventure phenomenon exploded, with extended versions of Adventure and similar treasure-hunt/fantasy-based text adventures appearing all over America and England. Being one of the first forms of entertainment available on a computer that could be interacted with in natural language, it instantly went viral on university mainframes and is reported to have caused a loss of 2 weeks of productivity wherever it was played. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Adventure, also known as ADVENT (due to the restricted naming conventions of early computers) or Colossal Cave, was the first text adventure game, released in 1975 by Will Crowther, a caver and a programmer on the ARPANET. ![]() Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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