In Popular Culture
The game is mentioned several times (as "Adventure") in Tracy Kidder's non-fiction book The Soul of a New Machine, first as a game played by an engineer working on the Eagle project, and eventually as a final test for the newly created computer.
In Terry Pratchett's Witches Abroad, the witches are said to be flying along "a maze of twisty little canyons, all alike."
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