Interesting news for historians of digital culture. I had no direct knowledge of this game. I want to learn more about it.
Wander was probably the first computer game that is recognisable as what came to be known as a “text adventure” (or “interactive fiction“) – pre-dating even ADVENT (a.k.a. Colossal Cave) by Crowther and Woods!
But Wander was more than that because it seems to have been designed to be a tool to allow users to create “non-deterministic fantasy stories”[1] of their own. So perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Wander was in fact the earliest known precursor to modern interactive-fiction development-systems like Inform 7! —Retroactive Fiction.
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Wow. *Very* big find. WANDER, 1974 text game & story generator predating ADVENTURE: https://t.co/5Wj01Sh7TG h/t @DennisJerz #elit #archives
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