Searching for Gregory Yob (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog)
Gregory Yob wrote “Hunt the Wumpus,” a 1972 computer game that featured cave-exploration and combat.
Of course, the game was all text, which makes it hard for most of my students to believe that anyone would possibly have enjoyed playing it. 1972 was also the year Atari released Pong.
Other than a few articles Yob wrote in the mid 80s, I haven’t been able to find out anything more about him. Anybody know something I don’t?
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71 was a long time ago. Teletypes were the main interactive terminal, lucky people had “glass teletypes” which could hold 80 columns by 40 lines of text. games? nothing much – blackjack. or PCC’s litle edugames like mugwump and hurkle which were very simpleminded.
About the time I wrote Wumpus, a version of StarTrek came along, it wasn’t bad. Versions of aventure for CP/M personal computers came along 5 years later. You know, like using a pencil in pre calculator days, duh.
Isn’t the internet great? I just made e-mail contact with Gregory H. Coresun, who is identified in several places on usenet as the former Gregory Yob.
He says he’s working on wumpus.com, which he hopes will be the definitive site for all things wumpus. I’m looking forward to that.