When I was very young I played a Hunt The Wumpus implementation on the PET where the locations were connected like the vertices of a dodecahedron - explicitly described as such. My father introduced me to topology by pointing out you could draw the map in a convenient flat shape and it worked the same way.

Nowadays, of course, I think of it as a d12.

In this 1976 article the original Wumpus author says he chose the dodecahedron precisely because it was his favourite platonic solid...

Coo. I had no idea the non-regular maps came later.