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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
The Picture Dictionary - Vietnamese	CEEDE;University of Iowa	?
The Shell Games	Apple	1979
Interactive Fiction: Six Micro Stories	Adventure International	1980
The Black Sage: An Ogre & Orcs Adventure	Poly-Versa-Technology	1980	Textual adventure. Collect as much money/valuables as possible and try to leave the castle by solving a few relatively easy puzzles. [Retro-Maniac]
Alibi	Hayden	1981
Space Adventure	Sierra Software	1981	Sierra Software is not Sierra On-line. This is a 1st person space flight sim, not an adventure game.
Spelling Bee Games	Edu-Ware Services	1981
Battlefield	Softside	1981	BASIC type-in program from a magazine [Retro-Maniac]
Quest for the Scarlet Letter	Superior Software	1982	You are an investigator sent back in time to investigate and record the supposed events Nathaniel Hawthorne based his novel on. Your unique camera records emotional states and themes but is limited to capturing only four moments.
Space Pirates	C&C Software	1982
Code-Breaker	SoftSide	1982
Haunted House	Scholastic	1983	[b]Compilation releases:[/b] - Mystery Double Feature - Tales of Mystery
Koala Grams	Koala Technologies	1983
Mystery at Pinecrest Manor	Scholastic	1983	[b]Compilation releases:[/b] - Mystery Double Feature - Tales of Mystery
Northwoods Adventure	Scholastic	1983	Released together with "Adventures in the Microzone" via a two-game compilation "An Adventure Double Feature" as well as the Scholastic Microzine #2.
Number Systems	MECC	1983
The Picture Dictionary - English	CEEDE;University of Iowa	1983
The Picture Dictionary - Spanish	CEEDE;University of Iowa	1983
Adventures in the Microzone	Scholastic	1984	Released together with "Northwoods Adventure" via a two-game compilation "An Adventure Double Feature".
Max Dublin's Treasure	Grolier Electronic Publishing (Intentional Educations)	1984
Raimorth's Hollow	Walter Computer Services	1984
The Baker Street Kids: Early Heroes of the Bible	Educational Publishing Concepts (Baker Book House)	1984
The Baker Street Kids: Searching for a King	Educational Publishing Concepts	1984
The Baker Street Kids: The Boy Jesus	Educational Publishing Concepts	1984
The Baker Street Kids: The Early Church	Educational Publishing Concepts	1984
Travel the World with Za-Zoom the Geography Genie	Focus Media	1984
Travel the World with Za-Zoom the Geography Genie	Focus Media	1984
Travels with Za-Zoom: The United States	Focus Media	1984
Vocabulary Challenge	Learning Well;Mindscape	1984
Jack and the Beanstalk	Human Relations Media Software (Golden Software)	1985
Mystery Mazes Case #1: The Carnival Caper	Educational Activities	1985
Rhyme Land	Grolier (MindFlight)	1985
Drug Alert	Mindscape (Methods & Solutions)	1986
Life Star	author	1986
The Baker Street Kids: A Week that Changed the World	Educational Publishing Concepts	1986
The Baker Street Kids: Moses Leads His People	Educational Publishing Concepts	1986
The Baker Street Kids: Paul's Missionary Journeys	Educational Publishing Concepts	1986
The Realm of Angbar: Elfhelm's Bane	Green Valley Publishing	1986
Labyrinth: The Computer Game	Activision (Lucasfilm Games)	1986	The protagonist of the game is not Sarah Williams. Rather, a movie goer is taken into Jared's Labyrinth while watching the movie. The developers wanted "the player to play the game as himself". Despite the poor choice of pronoun in that quote, in the game, the player must select to be male of female. The game begins as a text-adventure. It becomes a graphics+text adventure when the movie starts. This is a reference to The Wizard of Oz movie. It was suggested by Douglas Adams. Rather than free-form typing two word commands like the vast majority of adventure games, this game uses "word wheels" to construct commands. These wheels are a radial menu, Typical radial menus rotate on the Z-axis. Labyrinth's radial menus rotate on the X-axis. David Fox did this to avoid the player having blindly try various words to find which ones work. This is nice if you are not a text-adventure purist that considers cryptic guessing of key words to be part of the game. This computer game made more money than the movie. This was Lucasfilm's first adventure game and development lead to what became the SCUMM engine. SCUMM's point-and-click interface has its roots in the word wheels of labyrinth.
Ant Farm	Sunburst Communications	1987	Players choose a mode of play. Each mode has 3 difficulty levels. Players can observe ants before dropping them into the farm. Players must add and remove ants to produce and move eggs and other challenges. Pre-designed farms are available or can be randomly generated. It's similar to lemmings and despite having multiple objectives (rather than merely finding the exit) gameplay is not as complex.
Maniac Mansion	Lucasfilm Games	1987
Mr. Popper's Penguins: A Newberry Adventure	Sunburst	1987
Regrouping	Sunburst	1987
Audubon Grizzly Bears: Wildlife Adventures	National Audubon Society (Advanced Ideas)	1988
Balloonatics	Scholastic	1988
Conquering Decimals	MECC	1988	Title is, "Conquering Decimals (x, ÷)"
Conquering Fractions	MECC	1988	Title is, "Conquering Fractions (x,÷)"
Cosmic Heroes	Scholastic	1988	The super-villain known as Sirius Lunatik has created a gem to steal mankind's knowledge of the solar system and only one human, the player, manged to escape the gem's effects. The shards of the gem are scattered throughout the solar system. This ordinary human is offered the chance to work with the Cosmic Heroes team of super-powered beings. The player must use their knowledge of the solar system to help help find the shards and track, outsmart, and defeat Lunatik. Along the way, of course, by defeating his weapons, underlings, and clever interference* with the team's efforts. The menu driven gameplay is interlaced with action sequences. The menu portion of gameplay has interactive fiction elements besides simply choosing a branch of the story or selecting the correct answer to questions to proceed. [spoiler=show clever tactics spoiler;hide smart villain]For example, at one point in the story, Lunatik has managed to secretly deliver a few extra mainframe computers to the team. Now, the team doesn't know which computer is the original and thus contains the correct information that has been gathered so far. Lunatik uses such tactics in addition to more visceral means.[/spoiler]
Dinosaur Days	Pelican	1988
Miner's Cave	MECC (Intentional Educations)	1988

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