Hunt the Wumpus

Hunt the Wumpus is a text-based adventure game developed by Gregory Yob in 1973 and published through the People's Computer Company. The player moves through a network of connected caves arranged as the vertices of a dodecahedron while hunting a hidden monster called the Wumpus, trying to avoid fatal bottomless pits and disorienting super bats that can move the player around the cave system at random. On each turn the player weighs sensory clues about nearby dangers before deciding whether to move again or fire one of a limited supply of crooked arrows through the connected caves in an attempt to kill the Wumpus. Yob created the game after growing frustrated with the many similar hide-and-seek games already set on grid-based cave maps, and multiple variants of Hunt the Wumpus were later sold by mail order by Yob and the People's Computer Company. It has since been cited as an early example of the survival horror genre and was named to Time magazine's 2012 list of the all-time 100 greatest video games.