Adventure

An evil magician has stolen the Enchanted Chalice and has hidden it somewhere in the Kingdom. The object of the game is to rescue the Enchanted Chalice and place it inside the Golden Castle where it belongs.

This is no easy task, as the Evil Magician has created three Dragons to hinder you in your quest for the Golden Chalice. There is Yorgie, the Yellow Dragon, who is just plain mean; there is Grundle, the Green Dragon, who is mean and ferocious; and there is Rhindle, the Red Dragon, who is the most ferocious of all. Rhindle is also the fastest Dragon and is the most difficult to outmaneuver.

There are three castles in the Kingdom; the White Castle, the Black Castle, and the Golden Castle. Each castle has a Gate over the entrance. The Gate can be opened with the corresponding colored Key. Inside each Castle are rooms(or dungeons, depending at which Skill Level you are playing).

The Castles are separated by rooms, pathways, and labyrinths. Common to all the Skill Levels is the Blue Labyrinth through which you must find your way to the Black Castle. Skill Levels 2 and 3 have a more complicated Kingdom.

Becoro # 2024-03-03 21:41:47 - source

software: Adventure engine,

display: raster

About the release date:

Could be 1979 or 1980. According to the game developer, Warren Robinett:



dandyboh # 2014-10-21 10:00:07 - source

Adventure was released in North America by Atari, CX2613, picture and text labels rarity 2 Common+, NTSC. Sears 49-75154, picture label rarity 4 Scarce+, text label rarity 3 Scarce, NTSC. Released in South America by Polyvox, NTSC.

This game was inspired by another game called Colossal Cave Adventure (later known as Colossal Cave) by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Adventure was hundreds of kilobytes in size and ran on a room-sized mainframe; Mr. Robinett's Adventure fit in 2k and ran on a VCS, which is smaller than a VCR.

Mr. Robinett developed this game against his boss' instructions (who said it was too big).

Mr. Robinett also did this without permission and it was discovered after he'd left employment with Atari. At the time, programmers at Atari were not given credit, could not discuss their work in public, had no official creative input, were not allowed to collect royalties and were being paid less then some of their own secretaries.

In a development version of the game, there was a roadrunner character that just ran around.

Late in the development of this game, Mr. Robinett was told by marketing to change the game to 'Superman' to ride the hype of the Superman movie that was released in 1978. John Dunn came to the rescue and volunteered to do the Superman game.

Rocky's Boots was the followup to this game and uses a later version of the adventure engine (ADV# engine).

(Zerothis) - # 2006

emulated by
Atari Vault (Linux)

influenced by
Adventure: The Colossal Cave (DEC PDP-1)

has influenced
Rocky's Boots (Apple II E)
Catloaf 2600 (Linux)
Castle Adventure (MS-DOS)

has this clone
Indenture (MS-DOS)

prequel of
Adventure II (Atari 5200)
Adventure II (Atari 2600)

similar to
Castle Adventure (MS-DOS)
Copts & Robbers (Apple II E)

was remade as
Adventure II (Atari 5200)
Indenture (MS-DOS)
AdaVenture (Linux)

has this MOD
Adventure II (Atari 2600)