You know I never understood this game when I was a kid, and it was probably my only TI99 game that never got played. Having recently rebought the system and this being among the carts, after watching your vid i finally understand it and the game is brilliant. Loving playing it on the 99. Thanks for the vid.
I did play the text version! In 1978, at my middle school, in Beaverton Oregon, during study period in the library. It was running on Darlene, the timeshare computer at Tektronix.
This, Parsec, and Blackjack were my most played TI 99/4a games. I had the voice synth box, which made Parsec all the more impressive back then, but Hunt the Wumpus was my favorite. I actually found the game a bit scary as a kid.
I think this game is hard. Maybe it's my old brain at 49. Then again, a lot of TI 99 games are more difficult. It was a time before our brains stopped thinking as much.
I think we had to put up with games that required thinking. I remember trying to estimate how to move the ship in the text-only star trek computer game. You had to have an idea for calculating angles and manually plot a course around stars. I was just excited I could make the computer do things.
Dope! I played teh original text version of Hunt the Wumpus on a Commodore PET in 1978? when I was about 6 years old. A magazine my dad was subscribed to had the code. So back then one had to enter the code manually and save the code on a casette to play it. I never was able to beat the game, I think my dad made a couple of mis-type errors in the code and rendered it impossible to win. Oh the good old days. Never heard of this graphical version but this is pretty cool. Back then we had wild imaginations so we didn't need amazing graphics. The amazing graphics were in our heads. Get off my lawn!
Nice! Was that the one that was text only? Cause I remember the text-only wumpus game on the school district's mainframe (around 78) where the rooms were laid out like a dodecahedron. Then when I got to high school (around '80) they had the same text-only game on the PET 4000s there. old computing memories are the best.
I'm looking into making a version of "Hunt the Wumpus" on an 8x8x8 RGB LED matrix cube, as one of several game modes to accompany the usual animations and displays. Thanks for the memory refresher, there was so much about this game (I also played it on the TI-99/4A back in the day) that I'd forgotten.
Minesweeper can suck it! Hunt the Wumpus was a real game. Alpiner, Parsec, Tunnels of Doom, Microsurgeon, Early Learning Fun(just kidding) yeah Ti99 was a gem. My friends who had Atari 800 and Commodore 64 came to my place to play video games back in the day. Hunt the Wumpus was fun and terrifying. No matter how many times I get eaten by the Wumpus I would freak out every time. It looks like an evil version of the Spaghetti O’s logo. That will scare the crap out of the kiddies.
It should be noted that a VERY faithful clone of the 4A Wumpus (and Munchman) are available for Android devices from Google Play. Plays beautifully using swipes instead of direction keys.
They also ported Parsec but the controls are terrible unfortunately. I wish they would put Alpiner on there with the Speech Synthesizer support. It would bring me great joy to get farted on by the skunk again or to kick the bear in the bum and fall to the bottom of the mountain. Helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. P.
@@AngryCalvin Actually Alpiner would be great...it would get rid of the giant character redraw-flicker! I agree about Parsec...sometimes a game NEEDS a joystick (stick in right hand left thumb on a big red button). Munchman also suffers from screen cursor controls, but not quite as bad as Parsec where forward, reverse, up and down are quite often simultaneous movements to get out of trouble. Also nearly impossible not to overheat the lazer. Wumpus is absolutely perfect though. Excellent control system.
@@johnlewisbrooks no comment. probably shouldn't mention i even remember things that are even a little older. but not TOO much older. i mean, I don't remember the invention of the antikythera mechanism.
The TI-99 was the first computer my dad bought. And this was my ultimate favorite game.I wish i still had it.
showed this to my dad and he loves it, thank you for bringing this back
@deathbysushi7803 glad I could bring a smile to a face or two.
Awesome walk through! I loved this game when I was a kid. Brought back a lot of memories
Dude I'm just know understanding this game after all these years, lifes a trip
You know I never understood this game when I was a kid, and it was probably my only TI99 game that never got played. Having recently rebought the system and this being among the carts, after watching your vid i finally understand it and the game is brilliant. Loving playing it on the 99. Thanks for the vid.
Thank you for your kind words. I'm happy you enjoyed the video!
I never understood either too bad my computer is gone
1st video game I remember playing as a kid. Haven't seen the gameplay since I was a kid. Very cool to see 👍
I did play the text version! In 1978, at my middle school, in Beaverton Oregon, during study period in the library.
It was running on Darlene, the timeshare computer at Tektronix.
This, Parsec, and Blackjack were my most played TI 99/4a games. I had the voice synth box, which made Parsec all the more impressive back then, but Hunt the Wumpus was my favorite. I actually found the game a bit scary as a kid.
I think this game is hard. Maybe it's my old brain at 49. Then again, a lot of TI 99 games are more difficult. It was a time before our brains stopped thinking as much.
I think we had to put up with games that required thinking. I remember trying to estimate how to move the ship in the text-only star trek computer game. You had to have an idea for calculating angles and manually plot a course around stars. I was just excited I could make the computer do things.
For some reason I remember seeing this game at Hills in early eighties, always wondered what it looked like
Dope! I played teh original text version of Hunt the Wumpus on a Commodore PET in 1978? when I was about 6 years old. A magazine my dad was subscribed to had the code. So back then one had to enter the code manually and save the code on a casette to play it. I never was able to beat the game, I think my dad made a couple of mis-type errors in the code and rendered it impossible to win. Oh the good old days. Never heard of this graphical version but this is pretty cool. Back then we had wild imaginations so we didn't need amazing graphics. The amazing graphics were in our heads.
Get off my lawn!
Nice! Was that the one that was text only? Cause I remember the text-only wumpus game on the school district's mainframe (around 78) where the rooms were laid out like a dodecahedron. Then when I got to high school (around '80) they had the same text-only game on the PET 4000s there.
old computing memories are the best.
This was my first computer I need to get a hold of one.
Still have mine with a ton of games
I'm looking into making a version of "Hunt the Wumpus" on an 8x8x8 RGB LED matrix cube, as one of several game modes to accompany the usual animations and displays.
Thanks for the memory refresher, there was so much about this game (I also played it on the TI-99/4A back in the day) that I'd forgotten.
hey dosbomber... did you ever do this? if so, i'd love to see a link.
Looks pretty good. Map design is also interesting.
i loved this game lol
yeah. the wumpus is kinda demonic looking. still scares me a bit.
Hunt the Wumpus! When the guy falls you play the song that plays when you get eaten by the wumpus
Now this is my game!
I played this game, loved it.
hunt the wumpus was like minesweeper& avoiding bats&slime pits.
I remember playing this on an Atari of some sort. It was on a casette tape.
Awesome!
Minesweeper can suck it! Hunt the Wumpus was a real game.
Alpiner, Parsec, Tunnels of Doom, Microsurgeon, Early Learning Fun(just kidding) yeah Ti99 was a gem.
My friends who had Atari 800 and Commodore 64 came to my place to play video games back in the day.
Hunt the Wumpus was fun and terrifying. No matter how many times I get eaten by the Wumpus I would freak out every time. It looks like an evil version of the Spaghetti O’s logo. That will scare the crap out of the kiddies.
This was my first game :X
In the last one the poor Wumpus has fallen into a pit! #savethewumpus
Some endangered animals are endangered for a good reason. I wouldn’t want a Wumpus roaming around in my backyard.
Or a Grue.
It should be noted that a VERY faithful clone of the 4A Wumpus (and Munchman) are available for Android devices from Google Play. Plays beautifully using swipes instead of direction keys.
They also ported Parsec but the controls are terrible unfortunately. I wish they would put Alpiner on there with the Speech Synthesizer support. It would bring me great joy to get farted on by the skunk again or to kick the bear in the bum and fall to the bottom of the mountain. Helllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. P.
@@AngryCalvin Actually Alpiner would be great...it would get rid of the giant character redraw-flicker!
I agree about Parsec...sometimes a game NEEDS a joystick (stick in right hand left thumb on a big red button). Munchman also suffers from screen cursor controls, but not quite as bad as Parsec where forward, reverse, up and down are quite often simultaneous movements to get out of trouble. Also nearly impossible not to overheat the lazer.
Wumpus is absolutely perfect though. Excellent control system.
I was trying to think what game I really wanted on a Nintendo switch I just won in a raffle. I think it's Parsec or Alpiner or Tombstone City.
Hello unfortunately it seems like munchman for Android is deleted
@@sonic-12_2 Wonder why !? Luckily Wumpus and Parsec are still available.
0:25 cries out for a soundbite screaming, "GODDAMN IT, NOT AGAIN!"
You got some YEARS down on you if you remember this!
@@johnlewisbrooks no comment. probably shouldn't mention i even remember things that are even a little older. but not TOO much older. i mean, I don't remember the invention of the antikythera mechanism.
@OhMeadhbh ever played that 3d game where you're being chased by a dinosaur? Quite possibly the world's first survival horror game!
Couldnt play it whatsover at age 5, but it didnt matter because it was just too cool to be playing on a computer.
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