Dungeon

Moby ID: 218881

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Released

1980 on Mainframe

Credits

7 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

1980 (Mainframe)
1994 (DOS)

Moby Score: n/a

Genre: Adventure
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Gameplay: Interactive fiction / text adventure
Interface: Text parser
Setting: Fantasy

Mainframe Specs

Business Model: Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain
Input Devices Supported/Optional: Keyboard, Teletype/Teleprinter
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

See Also

Dungeon (1975 on Terminal)
Dungeon (1975 on Terminal)
Dungeon (1976 on Mainframe)
Dungeon (1979 on Commodore PET/CBM)
Dungeon (1983 on FM-7, PC-88)
Dungeon (1993 on Atari ST)
Dungeon (2009 on Windows)

Description

Dungeon is an unofficial port of the original Zork written in VAX FORTRAN. The gameplay remains the same with the player navigating the dungeon in search of treasure. Each room is described in text only and the player types their commands in VERB NOUN statements.

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Zork universe

Credits (Mainframe version)

7 People (5 developers, 2 thanks)

Dungeon was created at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science by	Tim Anderson Marc Blank Bruce Daniels Dave Lebling
It was inspired by the Adventure game of	Will Crowther Don Woods
The current version was translated from MDL into FORTRAN by	Bob Supnik (Credited as a somewhat paranoid DEC engineer who prefers to remain anonymous)

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Game added March 6, 2024. Last modified March 6, 2024.