Colossal Cave is back thanks to Roberta Williams, do you know her?

There are names that belong to the very history of video games, to their beginnings, and that was used at the time to support a new type of leisure e-mail who came to each house to stay. Now we have in our hands one of those lifelong references that was brought to life by a true industry legend: colossal cave and Roberta Williams, what more could you ask for?

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As you are told, there are video game names that live in the collective imagination that few can say were there when they were launched. In the case of Adventure in a colossal cave that probably doesn’t seem too much to you

but if The original adventurewhich was the title that came to Europe from one of the first versions of the story, in 1976. A conversational adventure, as they were called then, where there were no graphics and where all the descriptions and game commands had to be made through texts that read as if it were a book.

Well, that same story has been covered countless times, adapted, reimagined, and now completely reimagined by one of the greatest glories the graphic adventure genre has given us since the ’80s. No more. Roberta Williams, soul of Sierra Online, and Ken Williams, to whom we owe games as extraordinary as those King’s Quest, detective quest, space quest, Dr. Brain’s Castle, Larry Leisure Suit, EcoQuest and a long list of marvels that have come to rival the almighty LucasArts.

The fact is that Roberta wrapped the blanket around her head and created colossal cave

that you have since January 19 available for PC and Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Xbox and mobile phones, so you will have no excuse to revisit one of the most recognized adventures in history.

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Now the joy that floods many of us who live in the age of The original adventure To be able to return to the classic -with some things more than renewed-, does not mean that we have to warn that it is very possible that the vast majority of players will think that it looks like a half-baked title. The game respects the development of the original, except that the replacement of text descriptions with graphics

clearer and more obvious and, moreover, scrupulously respecting this development in which there was little to do.

This leads us to warn you that It’s an old-school game, with decades-old mechanics and that it has not been watered down so that new generations can easily jump on the bandwagon. Only those of us who’ve spent hours writing ’80s conversational adventure lyrics (including adaptations of The original adventure) we know the potential of a concept which, transferred as it is in 2023, can creak and not convince. Hence the ratings she takes which are not positive at all.

So save it if you encourage them to revisit this classic directed by Roberta Williams (and Ken Williams): colossal cavethat’s to say The original adventureanother difficult experience and is not suitable for all adventurers, especially those who grew up with the Point and click. And it is so because this game is another story. He’s the dean.