Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling These are commercial interactive fiction games played offline.
On personal computers Commercial text adventure games Shakespearean adventure game originally hosted on Cambridge University's Phoenix mainframeĪdventure game originally hosted on Cambridge University's Phoenix mainframe released commercially by Topologika Software as Spy Snatcher Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, and Ken Arnold Steve Tinney, Alex Shipp and Jon Thackray Jon Thackray, David Seal and Jonathan PartingtonĪdventure game originally hosted on Cambridge University's Phoenix mainframe Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling One of 'many games' in library of 500 programs. (For purposes of this list, minicomputers are considered mainframes, in contrast to microcomputers, which are not.)įor the Dartmouth Time Sharing System. Often these games were continually modified and played as a succession of versions for years after their initial posting. Years listed are those in which early mainframe games and others are believed to have originally appeared.
