Exile

You can play the game, and read all about how it works, at bbcexile.com. Exile has been with me for nearly 40 years. Written by Peter Irvin and Jeremy Smith and published by Superior Software for the BBC Micro in 1988, it was doing things an 8-bit machine had no business doing: a vast procedurally generated cave system, creatures with what seemed like intentions, real physics with gravity,…