We can be precise to the day about the release date...

...because Don's original code drop at SAIL was recovered and
announced on Twitter on 2021-01-01.
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the game.
Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was
released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods in 1977
(some sources, apparently erroneously, say 1976). That version is
sometimes known as 350-point Adventure.
released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods on June 6th,
1977 (some sources erroneously say 1976). That version is sometimes
known as 350-point Adventure.
Between 1977 and 1995 Crowther and Woods themselves continued to work
intermittently on the game. This main line of development culminated