1978

Adventureland

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PC-9800 Series Apple II Commodore C64/128/MAX ZX Spectrum BBC Microcomputer System Acorn Electron FM-7 Atari 8-bit PC-8800 Series Commodore VIC-20 Texas Instruments TI-99 TRS-80 Color Computer TRS-80 Dragon 32/64 Commodore PET

Developer: Scott Adams

Publisher: Adventure International, Texas Instruments Incorporated, StarCraft, Creative Computing Software

Game Modes Single player

Themes Fantasy

Perspective Text

Summary

A text based Adventure Game for the TRS-80, later enhanced with visual scenes in various ports. Only allowed 2-Word input and was largely based on Colossal Cave Adventure.

Storyline

"Adventureland" is the first interactive fiction game by Scott Adams. In using two-word verb-noun-combinations the player tries to retrieve 13 lost treausures in a fanatasy world. Initially the game did not feature any graphics at all. As time progressed, though, ports to more advanced systems were enhanced with visuals.