The first adventure game was called Adventure and ran on IBM mainframes. It became known as Colossal Caves or The Hobbit, and was influenced by Dungeons and Dragons. —Theo Clarke —The Infocom Adventure (Strategy Plus)
The Hobbit? WTF?
A transcription from a book, the full publication data of which is not given.
See my “Colossal Cave Adventure” page.
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Thanks. I suppose it’s *possible* to think of the nameless adventurer in Colossal Cave as a hobbit… with a little editing, that could work.
The citation here is a review of “The Lost Treasures of Infocom” published in Strategy Plus magazine. I cannot remember the issue but it would have been published about 1993.
A version of Adventure was being run under the name “HOBBIT” on IBM System/370 mainframes running MVS in some commercial installations in the UK in 1981.