Venture

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Description

Venture is an action game in which you control Winky, the heroic adventurer. Your goal is to collect as many treasures as you can which are scattered throughout numerous dungeons. In each dungeon, there are several chambers which each contain a treasure. Armed only with your crossbow, you need to get past the varied creatures which guard the chamber, snag the treasure, and make it out again. This is made harder by the maze guardians, who roam the corridors and will pop into a chamber to chase you if you spend too much time inside. Furthermore, even after shooting a creature you need to be careful, because touching its corpse before it decays will kill you all the same. Some chambers are trickier, containing moving walls that must be avoided, or walls that vanish suddenly to release a pack of ferocious creatures.

When you collect the treasure from each of the chambers in a dungeon, you can then move on to the next, more difficult dungeon.

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Critic Reviews

Tilt	ColecoVision	Jul, 1983		100
Electronic Fun with Computers & Games	ColecoVision	Feb, 1983	3.5 out of 4	88
The Video Game Critic	Intellivision	Mar 05, 2006	B+	83
All Game Guide	Arcade	1998		80
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	ColecoVision	Dec 10, 2003	7 out of 10	70
Woodgrain Wonderland	Atari 2600	Sep 23, 2018	B-	67
All Game Guide	Atari 2600	1998		60
The Video Game Critic	ColecoVision	Mar 19, 2006	C-	42
8-bit Central Retro Gaming	Atari 2600	2011		30
The Video Game Critic	Atari 2600	Apr 22, 2006	D-	16

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1001 Video Games

Venture appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.