Computer games have seen an incredible amount of growth over the past several decades. In 1961, two MIT students created what is now considered the 'first' computer game for the PDP-1, called Spacewar!, where two ships skirted around a central star in an attempt to destroy each other. In 1972, the first text-based computer game, Adventure, emerged.
Text-based games, or 'interactive fiction' were the primary medium of gaming on PCs for almost two decades ' until the advent of affordable personal computers with graphics engines took hold. Text-games began to merge word commands with graphics, creating very basic games such as Pool of Radiance.
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