Wander (1974 video game)

Wander
Designer(s)Peter Langston
Platform(s)Mainframe
Release1974
Genre(s)Interactive fiction
Mode(s)Single-player

Wander is text adventure written by Peter Langston in 1974. It is one of the earliest text adventure video games in existence, predating Colossal Cave Adventure.[1] The game was originally coded in BASIC[2] on a mainframe computer with multiple databases to create the worlds that formed the game.[3] It was distributed in Langston's PSL Games collection for Unix.[4]

For a long time, the original files had been kept in an archived email by one of Langston's friends. The files now exist on GitHub.[5]

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