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Image of a Wumpus

The images here refer to the The TI 99/4a cartridge version of Hunt The Wumpus from about 1985

Hunt The Wumpus for the TI 99/4a personal computer, circa 1985

However, Hunt The Wumpus dates back much further. Here's the 1975 BASIC version of Hunt the Wumpus, by Gregory Yob.

The Best of Creating Computing, Volume I, Hunt The Wumpus by Gregory Yob

A colleague was kind enough to port this code to C#. You can download the .NET version of Hunt The Wumpus (17kb) as a Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution. This version has a few modern amenities, such as representing the cave maps in XML files instead of DATA statements, but it preserves the UI as-is. Here's a screenshot of the magical gameplay experience that awaits you:

Screenshot of .NET Hunt The Wumpus in action