Hunt The Wumpus - Legacy

Legacy

• The card game Magic: The Gathering has featured several "Wumpus" cards. The Wumpus seen on Magic cards is a beast with a characteristically-shaped head, jaw and mane. Mercadian Masques featured Hunted Wumpus (reprinted in several core sets, including 10th Edition), as well as Thrashing Wumpus. Planar Chaos, a set concentrating on new takes on popular cards, contained Shivan Wumpus.
• The Wumpus is also found in the open source game NetHack and the game M.U.L.E.
• An interpretation of Wumpus called Grand Theft Wumpus is built up gradually in chapter 8 of Land of Lisp.
• The Wumpus is mentioned in the "Thy Dungeonman" games in Homestarrunner.com.
• The Wumpus gets his revenge on hunters in the audio-only game Be the Wumpus.
• A zone in Kingdom of Loathing inspired by the game was introduced in June 2009.
• Wumpus is the inspiration behind and project name of Nicholas the Traveler, an evermoving character in Guild Wars.
• Wumpus, an homage to the original game, was released for iPhone and Palm Pre in 2009.
• The complex maze structure of Hunt the Wumpus was a direct influence on the random sector link system of Trade Wars.
• Hunter, in Darkness, an experimental interactive fiction work by Andrew Plotkin, was heavily inspired by Hunt the Wumpus.
• Mattel Dungeons and Dragons was a 1981 LCD handheld game with gameplay influenced by Hunt the Wumpus. Differences were that the rooms were arranged in a 10x10 grid identified like spreadsheet cells like 'A1', and you're searching for a dragon rather than a wumpus.
• Dungeon Joe is a touch-focused strategy game inspired by the Mattel Dungeons and Dragons implementation of Hunt the Wumpus. It adds treasure and a damsel as goals, and a crystal ball allowing a glimpse into adjacent rooms. Being touch-focused, navigation within the dungeon is by swipe gesture, which scrolls the new room into view and tools are tapped to be taken or used.
• The game is commonly used in Artificial Intelligence to demonstrate knowledge-based agents.
• Wumpus Hunter, an adaptation of the original game created by Andrew Dos Santos and Terry Long, was released for iPhone in 2011. It was subsequently removed from the app store in 2012 because of a lack of updates.
• Treasure of the Wumpus in the Azimuth Cave, a 5.1 surround sound only audio game inspired by the original was created by Jared Bendis and presented at the 2011 & 2012 Ingenuity Festivals in Cleveland, Ohio.
• Cory Doctorow uses wumpuses in his book The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow.