Cave Adventure, but the [375]TOPS-10 operating system permitted only
six-letter filenames. See also [376]vadding, [377]Zork, and
[378]Infocom.

This game defined the terse, dryly humorous style since expected in
text adventure games, and popularized several tag lines that have
become fixtures of hacker-speak: "A huge green fierce snake bars the
way!" "I see no X here" (for some noun X). "You are in a maze of
twisty little passages, all alike." "You are in a little maze of
twisty passages, all different." The `magic words' [379]xyzzy and
[380]plugh also derive from this game.

Crowther, by the way, participated in the exploration of the Mammoth &
Flint Ridge cave system; it actually has a `Colossal Cave' and a
`Bedquilt' as in the game, and the `Y2' that also turns up is cavers'
jargon for a map reference to a secondary entrance.

ADVENT sources are available for FTP at
[381]ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/games/source/advent.tar.Z
. There is a
[382]http://people.delphi.com/rickadams/adventure/index.html.
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[Usenet] Abbrev. for "As Far As I Know".
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