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My memory is, if you shot and missed, the Wumpus would wake and move...only eating the player if he happened to move into the player's room. --142.177.171.164 18:08, 15 October 2003 (UTC)

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I don't know about others, but I believe the Wumpus (as a creature) appears in more games. One example I know about is the IF-game 'Hunter, in darkness'. If there are more, perhaps a list could be made? --81.246.179.75 10:20, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 PCC 2 Spaghetti code 3 M:tG Creature Abilities? 4 TI 99 4a version? 5 GM Bot duplication 6 Commercial game involving Mummies? 7 Multiplayer Hunt the Wumpus

[edit] PCC

Added note about origins of Peoples Computer Company, since there is no Wikipedia article yet. Maybe someone can dig up enough about the personalities and the organization's history to write the article. There's confusion about its correct name -- both "People's Computer Company" and "Peoples Computer Company" appear on the Web. --Quicksilver^{T @} 19:05, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spaghetti code

Yob's original code, reproduced in "The Best of Creative Computing" (1976), is a great example of spaghetti code. It contains numerous illegal GOTO jumps that just happened to allow the program to work, but makes direct conversion into a structured program, such as ANSI BASIC or C, impossible. Even though the code was cleaned up a bit when it was later ported to GWBASIC/BASICA, the spaghetti code structure remains in the versions that can be downloaded from archives today. --Quicksilver^{T @} 18:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Well, I wrote a beautifully-structured spaghetti-free version in Pascal last year. So there. Doops | talk 19:11, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

The original code confounds automatic translators, and better high-level language compilers prohibit jumping into the middle of loop structures and subroutines. I recently wrote a version of Hunt the Wumpus in True BASIC 3 (©1993) that looks and feels like the original. In order to make it work, the code ended up looking very different from Yob's original BASIC code. --Quicksilver^{T @} 20:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] M:tG Creature Abilities?

Do the abilities of the Hunted Wumpus ("When Hunted Wumpus enters play, each other player may put a creature from their hand into play") or Thrashing Wumpus ("B: Thrashing Wumpus deals 1 damage to each creature and player") relate at all to the game, or were the names the only references to the game? Dariustriplet 02:06, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] TI 99 4a version?

My family used to have one of these behemoths that had hunt the wumpus on it, but there is no mention of it here, I have also seen a web based version of it but can't find it anymore. The different thing about it was that it was a graphical version lots of fun. http://www.videogamehouse.net/huntwumpus.html --138.67.41.39 08:46, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

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It's spelt Wampus in the MULE games, NOT Wumpus. Does this mean that maybe they're not connected? I thought the MULE name was in reference to the French comic Wampus? It's on Wikipedia here. - 08/02/06 (February 8th) --213.36.110.30 16:00, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GM Bot duplication

The paragraph I removed and which was subsequently restored is largely duplicating an earlier line.

Paragraph I removed:

The first IRC bot, GM, played a game of Hunt the Wumpus with users who 
communicated with it over IRC. GM was written by Greg Lindahl.

In an earlier paragraph:

The first IRC bot, named "GM" (for "game master") was a multiplayer Hunt the Wumpus game, ...

These two need merging, but having already had my changes reverted I'll leave it to someone who's been working on the article to fix it in a suitable manner. --HappyDog 02:29, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commercial game involving Mummies?

Anyone remember a commercial game for the (I believe) C-64 that had game play very much like the Wumpus, but was instead mummis.? It had graphics too.

Just curious.

[edit] Multiplayer Hunt the Wumpus

I've played a version of Hunt the Wumpus where there can be multiple players at once. You can even shoot each other instead of the Wumpus. What fun