Colossal Cave Adventure - in Popular Culture

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The game is mentioned several times (as "Adventure") in Tracy Kidder's non-fiction book The Soul of a New Machine, first as a game played by an engineer working on the Eagle project, and eventually as a final test for the newly created computer.

In Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad, the witches are said to be flying along "a maze of twisty little canyons, all alike."

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