A huge text adventure begun by anonymous creators 40 years ago was only completed this year

A huge text adventure begun by anonymous creators 40 years ago was only completed this year

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Jason Dyer has a blog called All the Adventures (opens in new tab) (via RPS (opens in new tab)) where he plans to play and write about every text adventure ever made, from the beginning. It is of course a gloriously doomed undertaking, just like the CRPG Addict’s impossible quest to finish every CRPG in chronological order, which is why it’s wonderful. Right now, Dyer is playing and blogging about Ferret (opens in new tab), an obscure sci-fi adventure first released in 1982.

The original Ferret was made for the Data General Nova, a 16-bit minicomputer, and was only made available for PC with a DOS version released as a free download by the original authors in 2009. Ferret’s anonymous creators, who worked at the UK division of Data General, explain that since their game was “Developed in stages, the game’s architecture allowed the addition of extra phases in an incremental manner (opens in new tab).” And so they continued developing it, the updates ending with a “Final functional release with end game (opens in new tab)” that was uploaded on August 15, 2022.

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