Friday, 25 March, 2022 UTC
Summary
Roberta and Ken Williams, founders of Sierra and influential game designers | Photo by John Storey/Getty Images
Ken and Roberta Williams, two of the most influential figures in video game history, are bringing the original 1976 text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure to virtual reality, as well as Mac and Windows PC.
It sounds pretty straightforward when I put it like that, right? And then I remind you that the game in question looked like this:
Photo by Autopilot (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0) Colossal Cave Adventure running on a PDP-11/34 with a monitor. And then I remind you that Roberta and Ken have been retired for the past 25 years.
And then I remind you that — while Roberta and Ken made King’s Quest and Phantasmagoria AND are credited with the first graphical adventure game ever in Mystery Quest AND founded...
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