Hunt the Wumpus
Feb. 9th, 2013 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tygatiMy family's very first computer, such as it was, was an old TI99 from the days before DOS was invented. :3 Mostly, my mother used it to manage her finances, but we also owned two games which were played on cartridges. (This was also before the invention of hard drives)
One of those games was the now-legendary Space Invaders, which I think everyone on the planet has played a variation of at some point in time. My personal favorite, however, was Hunt the Wumpus. Every couple of years I'd check to see if someone had ported it to a modern system, and finally someone has!
It's part strategy, part guesswork, and part swear-words. ;) Beware the slime pits.
Oh, and if anyone's curious, the intro music (which has haunted me for twenty years) is Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.
(Also recorded by Apocalyptica on their Cult album, which is what I've had playing in the background. :)
One of those games was the now-legendary Space Invaders, which I think everyone on the planet has played a variation of at some point in time. My personal favorite, however, was Hunt the Wumpus. Every couple of years I'd check to see if someone had ported it to a modern system, and finally someone has!
It's part strategy, part guesswork, and part swear-words. ;) Beware the slime pits.
Oh, and if anyone's curious, the intro music (which has haunted me for twenty years) is Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.
(Also recorded by Apocalyptica on their Cult album, which is what I've had playing in the background. :)