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Wumpus { Hunt the Wumpus} wumpus: / wuhm´ p@ s/, n. The central monster ( and, in many versions, the name) of a famous family of very early computer games called Hunt The Wumpus. The original was invented in 1970 ( several years before ADVENT) by Gregory Yob. The wumpus lived somewhere in a cave with the topology of an dodecahedron' s edge/ vertex graph ( later versions supported other topologies, including an icosahedron and Mö bius strip). The player started somewhere at random in the cave with five ‘ crooked arrows’; these could be shot through up to three connected rooms, and would kill the wumpus on a hit ( later versions introduced the wounded wumpus, which got very angry). Unfortunately for players, the movement necessary to map the maze was made hazardous not merely by the wumpus ( which would eat you if you stepped on him) but also by bottomless pits and colonies of super bats that would pick you up and drop you at a random location ( later versions added ‘ anaerobic termites’ that ate arrows, bat migrations, and earthquakes that randomly changed pit locations). This game appears to have been the first to use a non- random graph- structured map ( as opposed to a rectangular grid like the even older Star Trek games). In this respect, as in the dungeon- like setting and its terse, amusing messages, it prefigured ADVENT and Zork and was directly ancestral to the latter ( Zork acknowledged this heritage by including a super- bat colony). A C emulation of the original Basic game is available at the Retrocomputing Museum, http:// www. catb. org/ retro/.
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