The Very Big Cave Adventure

aka: Unexpurgated Caves

Moby ID: 33225

Released

1986 on Amstrad CPC

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Publishers

CRL Group PLC

Developers

St. Bride's School

Moby Score: 6.7
#15,472 of 165K
Critics: 74% (6)
Players: (4)
Collected By: 3 players

Genre: Adventure
Perspective: 1st-person
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Gameplay: Interactive fiction / text adventure
Puzzle elements
Interface: Text parser

Amstrad CPC Specs

Media Type: 3" Floppy Disk
Input Devices Supported: Keyboard
Number of Players Supported: 1 Player

Description official description

Essentially a graphical version of Colossal Cave, The Very Big Cave Adventure has the player navigating around a forest, collecting treasures and dealing with strange creatures. It involves reading a description of each scene, then typing in one- or two-word commands to perform an action, with some of them providing some humor to the player. Directions can be abbreviated as N, E, S, W.