A limestone cave mouth at dusk beside a brick well house and a glowing lantern

The Arcade · Table

Adventure 1977

You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.

  • Text parser
  • Brass lamp
  • Colossal Cave
  • Arcade pass

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

In this cave

A 30-day pass to The Arcade — a cabinet of playable titles. You buy access to the collection, not the games themselves.

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Insert coin · table shelf · Crowther and Woods, 1977

About this cabinet In the cabinet

Will Crowther mapped Bedquilt Cave in FORTRAN; Don Woods added the treasures and the 350-point score in 1977. The tradition treats that cave as public. This cabinet edition is a typed port of that map: the well house, the grate, the bird, the snake, the hall of mists, and the maze of twisty little passages.

TAKE LAMP. OPEN GRATE. WAVE ROD at the fissure. CATCH BIRD (drop the rod first). Bring what glitters back to the building. Pitch dark will still eat you.

How to play

N S E W U DMove. GO NORTH also works.
TAKE / DROPCarry up to seven things. INVENTORY lists them.
ON / OFFThe lamp. You need it underground.
OPEN GRATENeeds the keys from the building.
HELPA short command list.