Description
Adventureland is the first of
Scott Adams' text adventures. Using simple two word commands you explore an enchanted world, solve puzzles and try to recover 13 lost treasures.
The game's display is different from other adventure games like
Zork: The Great Underground Empire in that the screen is divided into two "windows": the room description, exits, and items appear on the top part of the screen, and you enter commands on the bottom of the screen.
Alternate Titles
- "Terre d'aventure" -- Québec French title
- "Scott Adams Adventure Series: Adventure 1 - Adventureland" -- UK VIC-20 title
- "Adventure Land" -- Alternate spelling
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Trivia
Alexis Adams
Frustrated and fed up with
her husband's preoccupation with his homebrew microcomputer text adventuring system, his wife (and later
Adventure International contributor)
Alexis Adams hid the master floppy disks of his source code in various spots around the house -- culminating in his finding them in the oven one night, apparently ultimately without the intended, destructive effect. She jokes about the incident: "I guess [it] should have been the start of the first Adventure.
>GO KITCHEN
ALL I SEE HERE IS AN OVEN, A SINK, AND A COUNTER.
>LOOK OVEN
A SCREAM IS HEARD AS THE OVEN OPENS. EEEK ITS MR ADAMS SCREAMING 'OH NO MY DISKS ALLLLLLLLLLLLEXIS'"
Demo
An
Adventureland Demo package was released in 1979. It is a sampler of the original game, brought to the market as a retail demo. As a cut-down version it contains 3 treasures.
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