Adventureland

December 31, 1978

Scott Adams

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

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PuzzleAdventure

vic-20bbcmicroAtari8bitPC-9800 SeriesPC-8800 SeriesDragon 32/64C64ZXSTRS-80 Color ComputercpetAcorn ElectronApple][TRS-80FM-7ti-99

Single player

Text

Fantasy

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.