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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@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Kentucky, including fewer of the D&D-like elements now associated with
the game. the game.
Adventure as we now know it, the ancestor of all later versions, was 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 released on a PDP-10 at the Stanford AI Lab by Don Woods on June 6th,
(some sources, apparently erroneously, say 1976). That version is 1977 (some sources erroneously say 1976). That version is sometimes
sometimes known as 350-point Adventure. known as 350-point Adventure.
Between 1977 and 1995 Crowther and Woods themselves continued to work Between 1977 and 1995 Crowther and Woods themselves continued to work
intermittently on the game. This main line of development culminated intermittently on the game. This main line of development culminated