Wumpus Hunt

Here's a 2600 version of the old classic, Hunt The Wumpus, written in bB.

The bugs in bB 0.3 were annoying and I almost resorted to writing large chunks in assembly to get around them, but I ended up writing the entire thing is in bBASIC with no assembly.

So, how to play:

press RESET to start a new game, at which point you will be placed randomly in a 6x6, dark cave with only your wits and two arrows.

Somewhere in that cave is a Wumpus, a Pit, and a Bat.

Your object is to find the Wumpus and shoot him with an arrow. If you enter the same room as the Wumpus, he will eat you. If you enter the same room as the Pit, you will fall in the Pit and die. If you enter the same room as the Bat, he will transport you to some random room in the cave and then the Bat will return to his roost (do bats roost? anyway...).

Note also that every time you move from one room to another, the Wumpus may also move. He is immune to the effects of the Pit and the Bat.

You can move either north, south, east, or west. You can fire an arrow (if you have one) in the same four directions.

Since you are in a dark cave, you might ask, how can you avoid stumbling into the Pit, the Bat, or the jaws of the Wumpus?

Well, sight isn't the only sense you have to depend on, you know. You can smell the Wumpus when he is in an adjacent room to yours. You can feel the chill air coming from the Pit when it is an adjacent room to yours. And you can hear the flapping of the Bat's wings when it is in an adjacent room to yours.

So, that's the overview. Now the details

Your location is represented by a small figure of a man in a 6x6 grid. The rooms you have visited will be marked, the ones you haven't visited will be blank.

Directly to the right of the map is the messages area:

When you can smell the Wumpus, a "W" will appear there.

When you can feel the chill wind from the Pit, a "P" will appear there.

When you can hear the Bat, a "B" will appear there.

Move with the L joystick, press the trigger and move the joystick to fire an arrow. If you don't have any arrows, pressing the trigger and moving the joystick will cause you to move.

Your spare arrows are shown underneath the map.

You begin with two arrows, but if you fire them all, don't despair! All is not lost - you may yet find some arrows left over from previous, unsuccessful hunters...

A note on scoring: Your score is how many "turns" it took you to find the Wumpus. It takes one turn to move and one turn to fire an arrow.