showing 7 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adventure | Atari;Polyvox (Atari) | 1980 | 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.***[b]About the release date[/b]: Could be 1979 or 1980. According to the game developer, Warren Robinett: [quote]I am pretty sure the Adventure cartridge was released during the 1979 Christmas season. But I was in Europe during that time. People were definitely playing Adventure in early 1980 [...] Anyway, the Adventure cart was definitely out in the world by June 1980, and had been out there for a while. My belief is that it was released during the 1979 Christmas season, but I did not actually see an Adventure cart in a retail store prior to Jan. 1, 1980. So I guess I don't truly know for sure.[/quote]*** [48]***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 [game=Colossal Cave Adventure]Colossal Cave Adventure[/game] (later known as [i]Colossal Cave[/i]) 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). [spoiler=The first videogame with an easter egg (secret):;Close]Find the hidden dot that removes a wall and enter a secret room where the words 'Created by Warren Robinett' are spelled out.[/spoiler] 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 [game=#99763]Superman[/game] game. [game=Rocky's Boots]Rocky's Boots[/game] was the followup to this game and uses a later version of the adventure engine (ADV# engine). [Zerothis] | labelimagesubject |
| Knight on the Town | Mystique;Playaround | 1982 | Lady in Wading is a version variation with reversed roles. Instead of the man you control the woman. | labelimageminimize |
| Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin | Mattel (Synth Corporation) | 1983 | Prototype intended for release in North America, MT4325, NTSC. Uses joystick. Intellivision Productions is in possession of this game that will never be published due to copyright issues. This game is called Minotaur on the PC. | labelimageminimize |
| Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Mystery | ? (M Network) | 1984 | Prototype intended for release in North America, MT7175, NTSC. Uses joystick. Intellivision Productions is in possession of this finnished game that will never be published due to copyright issues. This game is called Tower of Doom on the Intellivision. This cartridge is 16k plus there are 2k of onboard RAM and the player can enter their name (this would have been the first VCS cart with these innovations). | labelimageminimize |
| Crossbow | Atari | 1987 | labelimageminimize | |
| Venture II: The Abysmal Abyss | AtariAge;Coleco (Coleco) | 2001 | labelminimizeminimize | |
| Adventure II | Atari;Syzygy Company | 2005 | labelminimizeminimize |
