Abstract is: Hunt the Wumpus is a text-based adventure game developed by Gregory Yob in 1973. In the game, the player moves through a series of connected caves, arranged as the vertices of a dodecahedron, as they hunt a monster named the Wumpus. The turn-based game has the player trying to avoid fatal bottomless pits and "super bats" that will move them around the cave system; the goal is to fire one of their "crooked arrows" through the caves to kill the Wumpus. Yob created the game in early 1973 due to his annoyance at the multiple hide-and-seek games set in caves in a grid pattern, and multiple variations of the game were sold via mail order by Yob and the People's Computer Company. The source code to the game was published in Creative Computing in 1975 and republished in The Best of Creative Computing the following year. The game sparked multiple variations and expanded versions and was ported to several systems, including the TI-99/4A home computer. It has been cited as an early example of the survival horror genre, and was listed in 2012 on Time's All-Time 100 greatest video games list. The Wumpus monster has appeared in several forms in media since 1973, including other video games, a novella, and Magic: The Gathering cards.
video game | Q7889 |
sequential game | Q287618 |
P1417 | Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID | topic/Hunt-the-Wumpus |
P646 | Freebase ID | /m/03q9x |
P12215 | Game Classification game ID | 1007 |
14627 | ||
P12001 | GamerProfiles game ID | pXlv |
P2816 | HowLongToBeat ID | 20668 |
P345 | IMDb ID | tt1982707 |
P6748 | Interactive Fiction Database ID | wlbdh7n1ca7wy8oz |
P5794 | Internet Game Database game ID | hunt-the-wumpus |
P7597 | Lutris game ID | hunt-the-wumpus |
P11688 | MobyGames game ID | 16103 |
63723 | ||
P1933 | MobyGames game ID (former scheme) | hunt-the-wumpus |
wumpus_ | ||
P856 | official website | http://www.catb.org/~esr/wumpus/ |
P7564 | OGDB game title ID | 30053 |
P7788 | openSUSE package | wumpus |
P6665 | Pro-Linux.de DBApp ID | 19677 |
P6931 | Repology project name | wumpus |
P5047 | Rosetta Code page ID | Hunt_The_Wumpus |
P1324 | source code repository URL | http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/games/wump/ |
https://gitlab.com/esr/wumpus | ||
P7897 | TI-99/4A Videogame House ID | huntwumpus.html |
P6839 | TV Tropes ID | VideoGame/HuntTheWumpus |
P8351 | vglist video game ID | 3914 |
P275 | copyright license | 3-clause BSD License | Q18491847 |
2-clause BSD License | Q18517294 | ||
P6216 | copyright status | copyrighted, dedicated to the public domain by copyright holder | Q88088423 |
P495 | country of origin | United States of America | Q30 |
P287 | designed by | Gregory Yob | Q5607226 |
P178 | developer | Gregory Yob | Q5607226 |
P437 | distribution format | ??? | Q1942227 |
P404 | game mode | single-player video game | Q208850 |
P136 | genre | survival horror | Q333967 |
P1552 | has characteristic | free and open-source video game | Q21125433 |
P479 | input device | computer keyboard | Q250 |
P407 | language of work or name | English | Q1860 |
P306 | operating system | DOS | Q170434 |
P361 | part of | bsdgames | Q21081848 |
P400 | platform | Texas Instruments TI-99/4A | Q454390 |
mainframe computer | Q177234 | ||
P277 | programmed in | BASIC | Q42979 |
P577 | publication date | 1973-01-01 | |
P123 | publisher | People's Computer Company | Q7165499 |
Description: screen output from Hunt the Wumpus, showing movement, shooting, winning
Artist: Gregory Yob
Work is copyrighted.
License: BSD
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FileName: Hunt the Wumpus map 3d.svg
Description: The Hunt the Wumpus game map drawn on a dodecahedron by CMG Lee based on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dodecahedron_light_blue.svg .
Artist: cmglee, Arne Nordmann
Work is copyrighted.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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FileName: Hunt the Wumpus map.svg
Description: Map of Hunt the Wumpus game, by CMG Lee.
Artist: Cmglee
Work is copyrighted.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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