On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:50:05PM -0000, KirkIsrael@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm not 100% positive, but I think years later I looked at
> "Hunt the Wumpus", a text-based classic for Unix (and older?)
> systems, and it occurred to me that the handheld must've just
> been a graphical version of that game. Of course, by that point
> I hadn't played the handheld for years, and wumpus was a little
> too difficult for me to get into, so take it with a grain of salt.
>
> http://www.taylor.org/~patrick/wumpus/instruct.html gives a
> description, http://www.taylor.org/~patrick/wumpus/ is the game
> itself in javascript.
>
> Hunt the Wumpus might be very doable on the 2600, but comapared
> to Skeleton a lot less action packed! The oldschool purists might
> appreciate it tho.
I can put it on my list of things to do with the modified Stellar
Track/FotR engine, after the Trade-N-Games business card.
The TI-99/4A had a graphical Wumpus that was pretty entertaining.
Something like that might be doable on the 2600 too.
Adam
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