Adventureland (1978)

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. "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.

Puzzle Adventure Fantasy interactive fiction text adventureCommodore VIC-20, BBC Microcomputer System, Atari 8-bit, PC-9800 Series, PC-8800 Series, Dragon 32/64

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Platforms: Commodore VIC-20, BBC Microcomputer System, Atari 8-bit, PC-9800 Series, PC-8800 Series, Dragon 32/64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, TRS-80 Color Computer, Commodore PET, Acorn Electron, Apple II, TRS-80, FM-7, Texas Instruments TI-99
Developer: Scott Adams
Publisher: Creative Computing Software, Adventure International, StarCraft, Texas Instruments Incorporated
Released: December 31, 1978
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Text

IGDB rating 6.0/10 from 7 ratings.

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