Ecala

created and published by Author in 1973, running on DEC PDP-1

type: turn-based, adventure, edutainment
genre: Interactive fiction, Simulation
perspective: other
player options: single player

languages: eng

Description

The game stimulated early consideration of computer artificial intelligence (or the appearance thereof), not infrequently passing the Turing test and fooling users into believing (for a little while, at least) that they were interacting with a real human being on the other end... blazing a trail subsequently followed down by Perry the Paranoid and Racter. Additionally, the nods its conversational interface made toward natural language processing (or, again, the appearance thereof) are considered to have been influential on the early mainframe development of the interface for text adventure games such as Adventure and Zork.

Becoro # 2023-04-16 13:11:29 - source