__''Hunt the Wumpus__'' is a text-based game adventure game developed by Gregory Yob in 1973. In the game, the player moves through a series of connected caves, arranged as the vertices of a dodecahedron, as they hunt a monster named the Wumpus. The turns, rounds and time-keeping systems in games game has the player trying to avoid fatal bottomless_pit and "super bats" that will move them around the cave system; the goal is to fire one of their "crooked arrows" through the caves to kill the Wumpus.
Yob created the game in early 1973 due to his annoyance at the multiple hide-and-seek games set in caves in a grid pattern, and it and multiple variations were sold via mail order by Yob and the People's Computer Company.
Hunt the Wumpus. 1973 text-based adventure game - wikimedia
The source code to the game was published in ''Creative Computing (magazine)'' in 1975 and republished in ''The Best of Creative Computing'' the following year- wikipedia 
The game sparked multiple variations and expanded versions and was ported to several systems, including the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A home computer. It has been cited as an early example of the survival horror genre, and was listed in 2012 on ''Time (magazine)''s All-Time 100 greatest video games list. The Wumpus monster has appeared in several forms in media since 1973, including other video games, a novella, and ''Magic: The Gathering'' cards.
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