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c. Designating or relating to a role-playing game (in later use frequently on a computer) comprising a single continuous story or narrative in which a player or players participate, usually with the aim of achieving a specific goal, as adventure game, adventure gaming, etc. See sense 4c.Development of this sense in a computing context is strongly associated with the early interactive computer game Adventure: see, for example, quot. 1980.The game was created by U.S. programmer Will Crowther, and first made available in 1972 to users of the Boston University mainframe. Later modified by Don Woods, from the late 1970s the game was widely distributed via the university-based communications network ARPAnet (a precursor of the internet).