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@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ WUMPUS is a bit of retrocomputing nostalgia.  It is an *exact* clone, even
 down to the godawful user interface, of an ancient classic game.  This version
 fixes two minor bugs in my original USENET posting of the source.
 
 down to the godawful user interface, of an ancient classic game.  This version
 fixes two minor bugs in my original USENET posting of the source.
 

+The original "Hunt the Wumpus" game was written by Gregory Yob in
+1973.  It was the first exploration game to use a non-grid worldmap,
+distinguishing it from earlier grid-oriented games such as Trek and
+predating even 1977's Colossal Cave Adventure.
+
+The origin date of the BASIC source from which this game was
+translated (and which is included in comments) is not known, but is
+pretty certainly before 1980 and probably close to the original 1975
+publication of the source in "Creative Computing".
+
+One historical liberty has been taken; the logo of this project is from a
+later version on the TI-99/4A with a graphical interface.
+

 SUPERHACK is a satire, structurally quite similar to WUMPUS.
 
 SUPERHACK is a satire, structurally quite similar to WUMPUS.
 

-For updates and related resources, see http://www.catb.org/~esr/wunpus/.
+For updates and related resources, see http://www.catb.org/~esr/wumpus/.