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ADVENT /ad'vent/ n.

The prototypical computer adventure game, first designed by Will Crowther on the [PDP-10] in the mid-1970s as an attempt at computer-refereed fantasy gaming, and expanded into a puzzle-oriented game by Don Woods at Stanford in 1976. (Woods had been one of the authors of [INTERCAL].) Now better known as Adventure or Colossal Cave Adventure, but the [TOPS-10] operating system permitted only six-letter filenames. See also [vadding], [Zork], and [Infocom].