Saturday 7 March 2015

Gaming's First Easter Egg - Adventure Let's Play with Creator Warren Robinett

Gaming's First Easter Egg - Adventure Let's Play with Creator Warren Robinett


It was 1979, and Atari programmer Warren Robinett was frustrated. The young engineer had already shipped a successful game called Slot Racers for the fledgling Atari 2600, and now he was working on something much more ambitious. Inspired by the text adventure games he’d played on computer mainframes, Robinett was building Adventure, a fantasy-themed graphical exploratory game and the conceptual predecessor to the action RPG.

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