#HUNT THE WUMPUS

[highretrogamelord]

Hunt the Wumpus for the ZX81

[blake447]

Commissioned some artwork for a wumpus for a remake of the TI-99A game Hunt The Wumpus (1971) and it's coming along pretty well.

Minimum viable product available on itch. It's fucking rough, but it's *technically* a game

https://blake447.itch.io/hunt-the-wumpus-3d

Creature not implemented yet

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Hunted Wumpus

Just one can feed a dozen people for a month.

Artist: Thomas M. Baxa TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[mtgatherercomments]

[unfortunately-a-fangirl]

That’s right bitches I made another game, this time inspired by Hunt the Wumpus.

Hunt the Hunt has you playing as a Security Guard on the Night of the Watergate Break-In. On their last warning, they have to catch the burglars in the building before they finish whatever nefarious things they’re up to!

Average Game Session is under 5 minutes.

A Special thanks to tumblies user @theparallaxview​ for convincing me to make it.

Go download the game at the link below:

https://stranger-tides.itch.io/hunt-the-hunt

[pipikosen]

happy late birthday nagi!! also, first post on this acc lmao, hope you enjoy!

[masterlist]

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wc: 1861

reader: fem (implied; wears a skirt)

cw: none! but a smidge of angst if you squint really hard.

ɢᴀᴍɪɴɢ ᴅᴜᴏ!ɴᴀɢɪ

gaming duo!Nagi who meets you in a fairly chill lobby.

It was one of the rare occasions Nagi decided to join team chat. Though reluctant, he finds himself clicking on the ever-detested icon, only for the lobby to be dead silent. He’s about to leave the voice chat when he finally hears a voice—yours—cut through above the game’s sfx.

“Ah, fuck, my bad.” Your voice is soft and not one he expected to find in this type of game and worst of all, you’re apologizing to him. 

“S’alright.” He doesn’t want to cause any more problems, it’s his off day from practice, after all. 

gaming duo!Nagi who sends you a friend request and a party invite right after the match because he thinks it’ll be a hassle if he has to deal with any more randoms than he has to. Plus you seemed nice enough.

Chok1: u don’t have to accept if you don’t want to

Chok1: but it was fun playing w u

You: nono i’ll join 

You: and it was fun playing w u too!!

Chok1: cool :x

You: hold on let me add you on disc

You: ____#1028

Unbeknownst to you, Nagi is smiling slightly at your message. He pulls his phone out, swiping down on a message from Reo asking what he’s up to before responding with his typical “:x” which only garners an ellipsis from the purple-haired male.

He’s quick to open Discord before leaving you hanging for too long, fumbling slightly with your username, but eventually, the friend request goes out. You’re quick to accept and it isn’t long till that familiar ugly emote of Wumpus begins waving at him, at which he sends one back before asking if he can start a call.

and thus begins your blooming friendship with gaming duo!Nagi.

gaming duo!Nagi who always queues up as your duo and isn’t afraid to dodge a match entirely if he isn’t in a role that directly correlates to yours. (spoiler alert: they all correlate, he just doesn’t like playing tanks) 

gaming duo!Nagi who isn’t afraid to hunt down and spawn camp the bastards that did the same to you only moments prior.

“Choki, I’m fine really.” Your pleading does little to placate the snow-haired male who’s pouting at you from behind the monitor. He just wants to defend your honor!!

So, he does it anyway. It makes you laugh, and he likes hearing you laugh.

gaming duo!Nagi who doesn’t share much about himself until months into your online friendship. Sure, he drops little tidbits about himself; like how he got his user from a cactus he had previously named or his favorite manga, but never anything truly personal. Until now, that is.

Once he thinks it's been long enough (and sat through enough of Reo’s internet safety lectures that he totally paid attention to) then he just starts dropping facts about himself out of the blue. It's kind of jarring, honestly.

“Seishiro.”

“What?”

“My name.” He only offers a noncommittal shrug, though he knows you can’t see it.

“Seishiro…Seishiro. I like it, it fits you Chokkun!” That adorable nickname paired with his actual name has his heart stammering slightly in his chest. Huh, that’s strange. That’s never happened before.

“Is it your first name or last?” 

He almost misses your question, clearing his throat, “Uh, first.”

“Oh.” You pray that the word didn’t come out as much of a squeak as you think it did. Your cheeks burn as you give him your own name. He says it in a way that has your throat tightening, imitating the way you had earlier; slowly, sensually.

You can’t help but think it sounds beautiful rolling off his tongue.

It almost feels intimate, doing this with him, even if it is just exchanging names. Though, you can’t help but crave more of these moments with Chokkun, or Seishiro, as he insists you call him now.

gaming duo!Nagi who doesn’t tell you he plays soccer because he finds it too much of a hassle to mix his athletics with his gaming, even if it does earn him a lot of earfuls from Reo.

gaming duo!Nagi who always drops guns with skins that he knows you like in Valorant or matches skins with you no matter what role you’re playing in League or Overwatch.

gaming duo!Nagi who isn’t above asking Reo for money when he wants to buy something for either you or him—whether it be a bundle, a battle pass, a skin, or a whole new game entirely.

When Reo asks, all he gets is a shrug in response. Even with the lack of a concrete answer, he sees the way Nagi stares longingly at his phone during breaks, more so than usual, that is.

“Finally manage to bag someone, Nagi? ‘Bout time, I was starting to think you were going to be lonely forever.” The white-haired striker doesn’t even flinch when his best friend’s hand comes down as a harsh, congratulatory slap to his back, a little too focused on the picture—the first picture that wasn’t a screenshot or a meme, really—that you sent him. He only offers a half-hearted hum in response.

gaming duo!Nagi who takes a bit to process that the picture you sent him was of the entrance of a convenience store. It looks familiar, but he doesn’t dwell on it. He blames it on the fact the picture is shaky.

gaming duo!Nagi who realizes late at night when he’s trying to sleep that the reason the convenience store looks familiar is because it's the one right around the corner.

gaming duo!Nagi who doesn’t want to ask and come off like a creep, so he brushes it off as a coincidence to placate his beating heart. What a hassle… 

gaming duo!Nagi whose first picture he sends you is one of his face.

Nagi isn’t quite sure what deity possessed him, but now he’s reveling in the consequences of his actions. He contemplates deleting the image but stops when he sees you typing. 

It wasn’t a bad picture, in all honesty. It was just a simple selfie, his face illuminated solely by the blue light of his monitor as his half-lidded gaze stares tiredly into the camera. His lips form a small pout after the back-to-back losses the two of you faced.

You: who’s that??? why are u randomly sending me pictures of hot men sei?

For a moment, he’s at a loss, staring blankly at your message. The gears in his head are slow to turn, but when they do, his face erupts into a brilliant scarlet as he groans into the palms of his hands.

How did you always manage to make him feel so fucking lame? This was such a pain in the ass, but he can’t find it in himself to just close your message and call it a day.

chosei: it’s me lmao

He waits with a bated breath while you type, all too aware of his fast-beating heart that threatens to jump out of his chest the longer you continue to type. You stop for a moment, your typing status disappearing for a moment before it returns.

You: oh

He feels his heart shatter slightly at your response, fisting at the arm of his office chair as he rubs at his tired eyes. He feels stupid, unsure on whether or not he wants to cry despite the fact you quite literally called him hot only moments prior. 

He turns to his phone, in hopes of venting to Reo, who despite all his future strict lectures and “I told you so”’s, cares deeply for his best friend's mental and physical well-being.

What Nagi wasn’t expecting was to find a picture of a random person dead-center of your messages. You.

You’re beautiful.

You: this is me!! pls don’t mind the mess i didn’t have time to clean (edited)

Nagi doesn’t need to know you had originally said “bc i wanted to hang out with you!!” at the end of your message. For the safety of your heart, you pray he didn’t see it.

gaming duo!Nagi who asks to have face cams on a lot more often, even if it obscures a necessary aspect of the game. What neither of you know is that you both take the chance to stare at the other’s face when you die.

gaming duo!Nagi who no longer denies the e-dater label that Reo slapped on him as a joke, merely humming as he skillfully balances the ball, counting down the minutes before practice is over. 

gaming duo!Nagi who dreads the fact the date to that stupid Blue Lock camp is drawing closer, knowing he can’t play with you as often, if not at all.

gaming duo!Nagi who asks to meet up out of the blue.

chosei: we should meet up

You: ??? where’d that come from lmao???

chosei: im being forced to go to camp >:x

You: for what? you aren’t a criminal are you?

chosei: no stupid

chosei: for soccer

You: you play a sport??????

You: ?????

chosei: ye? ig i never told you

chosei: mb

You: no no ur good

You: you just don’t seem like the type to play a sport

Ironically enough, he thought the exact same.

You: okay

You: say we hypothetically decide to meet up

You: how do you know we’re in the same prefecture

chosei: :shrug: 

You: ihy 

chosei: okay

chosei: what school do you go to then?

You: … touche

You: Hakuho

gaming duo!Nagi who sends you the address to the convenience store you first sent a picture of, followed quickly by the fact he goes to the same school so as to not seem creepy.

gaming duo!Nagi who’s a little too giddy to know how close you actually are to be able to hide his out-of-character grin from the all-seeing violet eyes of Reo.

gaming duo!Nagi who unintentionally searches for you, pouting because he doesn’t know what classes you have.

gaming duo!Nagi who’s surprisingly first to arrive at the convenience store you agreed to meet at, his hands fiddling with a shitty game he found on the App Store while his nose is tucked into the fleece of his hoodie.

“Sorry I’m late!” You round the corner at an alarming speed, nearly crashing into him as you trip over your own feet. Your hair is in a different style from what he’s used to seeing, and you bear accessories that he can’t recall seeing on your person prior.

And yet, Nagi can’t find it in himself to deem you anything less than stunning.

Fiddling with the skirt of your uniform beneath his observant gaze, you clear your throat before offering a meek smile, “Hi, Seishiro.”

He offers a small smile in return, “Hi.”

gaming duo!Nagi who asks you to be his that very same day, unable to look you in the eye.

gaming duo!Nagi who complains about how lame he feels after you accept.

gaming boyfriend!Nagi who holds you for the first time that day and never wants to let go.

hope you enjoyed it! feel free to send in requests if you did<3

[whatsthatmagiccard]

Here's a(n incomplete) list of every new MH3/M3C card that's a direct reference to an older card.

Null Elemental Blast -> Red/Blue Elemental Blast

Nulldrifter -> Muldrifter

Warped Tusker -> Krosan Tusker

Wastescape Battlemage -> Sunscape Battlemage

White Orchid Phantom -> Knight of the White Orchid

Brainsurge -> Brainstorm

Harbinger of the Seas -> Magus of the Moon

Kozilek's Unsealing -> Sarkhan's Unsealing

Serum Visionary -> Serum Visions

Shadow of the Second Sun -> Sphinx of the Second Sun

Strix Serenade -> Swan Song

Chthonian Nightmare -> Recurring Nightmare

Consuming Corruption -> Tendrils of Corruption -> Corrupt

Etherium Pteramander -> Pteramander

Gravedig -> Gravedigger

Marionette Apprentice -> Marionette Master

Necrodominance -> Necropotence

Wurmcoil Larva -> Wurmcoil Engine

Frogmyr Enforcer -> Frogmite & Myr Enforcer

Powerbalance -> Counterbalance

Spawn-Gang Commander -> Siege-Gang Commander

Colossal Dreadmask -> Colossal Dreadmaw

Evolution Witness -> Eternal Witness

Lion Umbra -> Daybreak Coronet

Primal Prayers -> Aluren

Wumpus Aberration -> Hunted Wumpus

Cranial Ram -> Cranial Plating

Wight of the Reliquary -> Knight of the Reliquary

Winter Moon -> Winter Orb

Final Act -> Farewell

Siege-Gang Lieutenant -> Siege-Gang Commander (again!)

Sphinx of the Revelation -> Sphinx's Revelation

Bloodbraid Challenger -> Bloodbraid Elf

Broodmate Tyrant -> Broodmate Dragon

Stone Idol Generator -> Ancient Stone Idol (and Stone Idol Trap, but that one's not popular)

[glitchpalantir]

**The Forgotten World of Teletype Games**

🎮✨ **Teletype Games: Where It All Began!** ✨🎮

Before immersive 3D graphics, before the rise of consoles, and before we carried entire game libraries in our pockets—there was the humble **Teletype Machine**. A forgotten chapter in gaming history, these early text-based games were the foundation of everything we know and love today in the gaming world. 🖥️⚡

📜 **What is a Teletype Game?**

Teletype games emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, using machines designed for communication, not entertainment. These were text-based adventures, played through a printer or screenless terminal, where players would input commands and receive printed feedback in real-time! Imagine an old-school version of today's *choice-based* narrative games, but without visuals. Just pure imagination and strategy!

🚀 **Why Should We Care?**

Teletype games set the groundwork for the **adventure** and **role-playing** genres. Games like *Zork* owe their very existence to these early pioneers! They taught players how to think critically, problem-solve, and engage with interactive storytelling in ways that resonate with modern games today. In a world driven by fancy graphics, Teletype games remind us that **gameplay and story** are the heart of any great game.

✨ **For Writers, Designers, and Psychologists** ✨

- **Game Writers**: Dive into the world of pure narrative-driven gameplay. Study how these early games used **text** alone to create tension, mystery, and adventure.

- **Game Designers**: Teletype games were **minimalist masterpieces**—every command, every line mattered. Learn how to design engaging games with limited resources and push creativity to the max!

- **Game Psychologists**: Explore the early days of **player interaction** with machines. These games were early examples of human-computer interaction and shaped the way people interact with games and their stories today.

🕹️ **Key Examples:**

- *The Oregon Trail* (1971): One of the most iconic early teletype games. Surviving a journey through the frontier, all decided by the player’s text input.

- *Hunt the Wumpus* (1972): A proto-dungeon-crawler, where players navigate through rooms to find and defeat a hidden monster—without visual clues!

🧠 **Conclusion:**

Teletype games may be ancient history, but they laid the foundation for the **complex narratives** and **game mechanics** we now take for granted. By looking back at these early innovations, we can better understand how to push the boundaries of what games can be. 🌍🚪

Are you ready to explore the past and get inspired for the future of game design?

#TeletypeGames #GamingHistory #TextBasedAdventures #GameDesign #RetroGaming #IndieGameInspiration #NarrativeDesign

[leanstooneside]

Being aloof

- now the LISP

- File; The New

- USENET] The word

- disallow the entity

- Fumbling The Future

- Press; The book

- versions the name

- novel The Shockwave

- jargon the word

- day the printer's

- In the IBM

- platforms the mailer

- Describes the command

- Hunt The Wumpus

- players the movement

- Nowadays the term

- it the Law

- Zippy the Pinhead

- techspeak] The action

- Programmers; the acronym

- Intel the tacit

- Zap the debug

- map the maze

- ringer. The ringer

- mascot; the program's

- C the default

- novel The Gods

- include the following

- Ignored the First

- n. The Unicode

[retrocgads]

UK 1985

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Hunted Wumpus

Just one can feed a dozen people for a month.

Artist: Thomas M. Baxa TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[prokopetz]

Since Discord's mascot is named Wumpus, it might be wise to keep an alternative name for Mr. Wumpus in your back pocket, just in case there's ever a problem.

(With reference to this post here.)

The name and appearance of Discord’s mascot are based on the titular monster from the 1973 video game Hunt the Wumpus. They’d have a hard time going after anybody else for having a character named “Wumpus” without tripping over a pretty serious prior art claim.

[belphieslilcow]

whats a whump

[johnnytenspeed]

Hunt the Wumpus

The little guy from Mine Dig kept digging and digging, going deeper and deeper until he reached the TI-99/4A at the earth’s core, home of the fearsome Wumpus.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/262944-hunt-the-wumpus-atari-2600/

[soulvomit]

I feel a lot like “nerd” was so much my identity growing up and later, but the thing is, your “identity” is NOT SOMETHING YOU CHOOSE. I was raised by a nerd, and by and large, even raised in computer nerd culture.  (I’m actually okay with “nerd” no longer being a social identity with heavy cultural and social and neurological/psychiatric assumptions behind it, and merely being a collection of hobbies and interests and fandoms.) What was frustrating for a long time though is that before computer people became The Last American Middle Class Standing, and before “geekdom” became a description of a relatively mainstream set of fandoms and hobbies, there are a lot of other identities that were not compatible with being a nerd or geek. It’s as if nerd/geek was supposed to explain every possible thing about me. And for reference, in the 80s and 90s and early 00s, there was a lot of actual effort to include women. The really rigorous gatekeeping hadn’t started yet. Modern people can’t wrap their minds around the fact that two decades before GamerGate and online bro vs feminist debates, there were groups of guys saying “I wish more girls did this thing,” and a professional field that contained a lot of highly accomplished (now in their 60s and 70s) women. Computer culture actually got more sexist, not less. I worked in it during a transitional time when women were entering the field less and less, but it hadn’t transitioned to full TechBro yet.  (And I’m strongly feeling that part of the problem was the perception that it was an extremely sexist domain, largely on account of male-centric 80s PC advertising, which led to so many Gen X and a majority of Elder Millennial women staying out of it, which led to a catch-22 where computer culture and nerd culture increasingly came to be seen as misogynist safe space by successive generations of computer people and nerds. This is why in advertising and marketing, REPRESENTATION FUCKING MATTERS.) One of the incompatible identities was LGBT. I was seen as a woman who *chose* to hang out with and work dominantly with men and as someone who had made the choice to involve myself in a male-dominated environment that many other women just couldn’t relate to. Most women I tried to date and associate with within LGBT community couldn’t stand that I spent weekends at a gaming table with 4 guys and maybe 1 other woman. (And were focused on the fact that 4 guys were there, not on the fact that women clearly *wanted* to be there and were welcome.) It was like this was the only important thing about me and all anyone needed to know.  It’s not lost on me that I suddenly started gaining more acceptance after I got into health care and left tech.

[domidextrus]

Okay, so considering Strong Bad’s about to Let’s Play the games that were name-dropped on the floppy disks in his SBEmails, these games will be next (not necessarily in that order) on Disk 4 of 12. (Game titles with a strikethrough have already been covered.)

LONG LIST AHEAD!!

FriendlyWare PC Introductory Set

World Games

Vampire's Castle Adventure (Technically not a game that was referenced on the desk's floppy box. Strong Bad picked it because it was the main inspiration for Thy Dungeonman.)

Tongue of the Fatman (aka Mondu’s Fight Palace, aka Slaughter Sport)

Lode Runner

Loom

Starflight

Rise of the Dragon

Manhunter: New York

Odell Lake

The 7th Guest

Tass Times in Tonetown

One on One

Out of this World (aka Another World)

Nitemare 3D

Nobunaga’s Ambition

Seicross

Bio Menace

Maniac Mansion

HyperBlade

BAAL

Caveman Ugh-lympics

Some classic Tengen games

Alone in the Dark

Bushido

Thexder

Lunar Lander

Deathtrack

Spy VS Spy

Future Wars

Miner 2049er

Battle Chess

Colorado

Fiendish Freddy’s Big Top o’ Fun

Marble Craze

Karateka

The Newsroom

Wraith

Crush, Crumble & Chomp

Dunjonquest: Curse of Ra

Genghis Khan

Low G Man

Axe of Rage (aka Barbarian II: Dungeons of Drax)

Swashbuckler

Sam & Max Hit the Road

Gold Rush

Codename: ICEMAN

Below the Root

Weird Dreams

Some classic Brøderbund games

California Games

The Legend of Kyrandia games

MasterType

Silpheed

BioForge

Low Blow

Drakkhen

Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty

LHX: Attack Chopper

Dark Seed

Rise of the Triad

The Colonel's Bequest

The Ancient Art of War

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

D

Heart of China

Ballistix

Gamma Force in Pit of a Thousand Screams

4-D Boxing (aka 4D Sports Boxing)

The Secret of Monkey Island

Return to Zork

Relentless (aka Little Big Adventure)

Mutant League Football

Flashback: The Quest for Identity

RAMA

MegaRace

Icon: Quest for the Ring

Some other games/software that had also been referenced but remains to be seen whether they’ll also be showcased:

King’s Quest II & Police Quest II (were on barely-legible floppies in Puppet Time, Brothers Chaps confirmed the names on the floppies in DVD commentary, unsure of whether that counts)

Shogun (appeared in Strong Bad Is In Jail Cartoon, unsure of whether that counts)

War of the Ring (appeared in the DVD menu of strongbad_email.exe Disc Two, unsure of whether that counts)

The Oregon Trail 1 & 2 (appeared in Main Page 22, unsure of whether that counts)

Hunt the Wumpus (appeared in the 2005 April Fools toon, unsure of whether that counts)

Cakewalk (not a game, but a MIDI sequencer)

Logo (not a game, but a programming language)