Adventure
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Item Description
Somewhere in Adventure's blue labyrinth, a yellow dragon is coming for you, and a black bat has just made off with the key you needed. Warren Robinett took the idea of Colossal Cave Adventure, a text game played on mainframe computers, and turned it into something you could see and move through on the Atari 2600. The result was one of the first action-adventure games on a home console and it is often cited as an ancestor of the genre that The Legend of Zelda would later define.
Your hero is just a small square, but the world is surprisingly rich. You explore the gold, black and white castles, the catacombs and the maze, hunting for the enchanted chalice and returning it to the golden castle. Three dragons, Yorgle, Grundle and Rhindle, stand in the way, each with its own temperament, and you can only carry one item at a time: a sword for slaying, keys for castle gates, a magnet for pulling objects, a bridge for crossing walls. The bat, who randomly swaps your item for another, keeps every run unpredictable. The third difficulty level scatters the items at random, so no two games play the same.
Adventure is also famous for a hidden secret that became gaming's most celebrated early Easter egg. Atari didn't credit programmers on its games at the time, so Robinett hid a secret room displaying his name, reached only by finding a single gray dot. It is a piece of gaming history as much as a game, and still a rewarding, slightly eerie quest to play on original hardware.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1980
- Publisher
- Sears
- Developer
- Atari
- Genre
- Adventure
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Adventure is a video game for the Atari 2600 video game console, released in 1980. In the game, the player controls a square avatar whose quest is to hunt an open world environment for a magical chalice, returning it to the golden castle. The game world is populated by roaming enemies: dragons, which can eat the avatar; and a bat, which randomly steals and hides items around the game world. Adventure was designed and programmed by Atari employee Warren Robinett, and published by Atari, Inc. At the time, Atari programmers were generally given full control on the creative direction and development cycle for their games, and this required them to plan for their next game as they neared completion of their current one to stay productive. Robinett submitted the source code for Adventure to Atari management in June 1979 and soon left Atari. Atari released the game in early 1980.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayAdventure on Atari 2600
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Atari 2600
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