History VideoGame / HuntTheWumpus

''Hunt the Wumpus'' is a text-based hunting game from 1972. It was written in BASIC by Gregory Yob on [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers mainframes]] at the University of Massachusetts and published as a type-in program in books and magazines throughout TheSeventies. In 1980, it was remade as a graphical puzzle game for the [[Platform/TI99 TI-99/4A]].

[[caption-width-right:256:The Wumpus eating you in the [[UsefulNotes/TI99 TI-99/4A]] version. Likely video gaming's first GameOverMan.]]

''Hunt the Wumpus'' is a text-based hunting game from 1972. It was written in BASIC by Gregory Yob on [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers mainframes]] at the University of Massachusetts and published as a type-in program in books and magazines throughout TheSeventies. In 1980, it was remade as a graphical puzzle game for the [[UsefulNotes/TI99 TI-99/4A]].

!!The [[UsefulNotes/{{TI99}} TI-99/4A]] version provides examples of:

Has nothing to do with Discord's mascot.

* HaveANiceDeath: If you kill yourself with an arrow: "Hee hee hee - the wumpus'll get you the next time!"

''Hunt The Wumpus'' is a text-based hunting game from 1972. It was written in BASIC by Gregory Yob on [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers mainframes]] at the University of Massachusetts and published as a type-in program in books and magazines throughout TheSeventies. In 1980, it was remade as a graphical puzzle game for the [[UsefulNotes/TI99 TI-99/4A]].

* FeaturelessProtagonist

* GameOver

* DifficultyLevels

* RandomlyGeneratedLevels
* WrapAround

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[[caption-width-right:300:The Wumpus eating you in the [[UsefulNotes/TI99 TI-99/4A]] version. Possibly videogaming's first GameOverMan.]]

* TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames

[[caption-width-right:300:The Wumpus eating you in the [[UsefulNotes/{{TI99}} TI-99/4A]] version. Possibly videogaming's first GameOverMan.]]

''Hunt The Wumpus'' is a text-based hunting game from 1972. It was written in BASIC by Gregory Yob on [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers mainframes]] at the University of Massachusetts and published as a type-in program in books and magazines throughout TheSeventies. In 1980, it was remade as a graphical puzzle game for the [UsefulNotes/[{{TI99}} TI-99/4A]].

[[caption-width-right:300:The Wumpus eating you in the [[{{TI99}} TI-99/4A]] version. Possibly videogaming's first GameOverMan.]]

''Hunt The Wumpus'' is a text-based hunting game from 1972. It was written in BASIC by Gregory Yob on [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers mainframes]] at the University of Massachusetts and published as a type-in program in books and magazines throughout TheSeventies. In 1980, it was remade as a graphical puzzle game for the [[{{TI99}} TI-99/4A]].

!!The [[{{TI99}} TI-99/4A]] version provides examples of:

''Hunt The Wumpus'' is a text-based hunting game from 1972. It was written in BASIC by Gregory Yob on [[MainframesAndMinicomputers mainframes]] at the University of Massachusetts and published as a type-in program in books and magazines throughout TheSeventies. In 1980, it was remade as a graphical puzzle game for the [[{{TI99}} TI-99/4A]].

* {{AFGNCAAP}}

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wumpus3_9652.jpg
[[caption-width:300:The Wumpus eating you in the [[{{TI99}} TI-99/4A]] version. Possibly videogaming's first GameOverMan.]]''Hunt The Wumpus'' is a text-based hunting game from 1972. It was written in BASIC by Gregory Yob on [[MainframesAndMinicomputers mainframes]] at the University of Massachusetts and published as a type-in program in books and magazines throughout TheSeventies. In 1980, it was remade as a graphical puzzle game for the [[{{TI99}} TI-99/4A]].

* TheArcher

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Laying in a course for an arrow like it's a cruise missile.

The Wumpus is a monster that lives in a cave of 20 rooms, connected by tunnels, in the shape of a dodecahedron - each room connects to three others. You start in one room, with five 'crooked arrows' that can fly around corners. The game gives you your room number, the numbers of the three rooms connected to yours, and warns you if Super Bats, BottomlessPits, or the Wumpus are in an adjacent room. But it doesn't tell you which of the three rooms the warning is coming from. By wandering from room to room, you build a map that can reveal the location of the Wumpus. Once you know that, you can shoot an arrow from up to five rooms away and guide it to the kill.