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Adventureland (1978)

Adventureland (1978)

Adventure Puzzle Text
PC-9800 Series Commodore C64/128/MAX Atari 8-bit PC-8800 Series FM-7 Acorn Electron BBC Microcomputer System Texas Instruments TI-99 Dragon 32/64 Commodore VIC-20

Terre d'aventure, Adventure 1: Adventureland, Adventure Land, Adventure, Scott Adams Adventure

Release Date: 1978, December 31
Alternative Titles: Terre d'aventure, Adventure 1: Adventureland, Adventure Land, Adventure, Scott Adams Adventure
Publishers: Adventure International, StarCraft, Texas Instruments Incorporated, Creative Computing Software

Description:

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.

Keywords:

interactive fiction text adventure