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Adventureland

1978 60 / 100 Adventure Puzzle

A text based Adventure Game for the TRS-80, later enhanced with visual scenes in various ports. Only allowed 2-Word input and was largely based on Colossal Cave Adventure.

World design Nicht eindeutig GameplayPuzzles

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Everything about Adventureland: story and gameplay

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Story & context

"Adventureland" is the first interactive fiction game by Scott Adams. In using two-word verb-noun-combinations the player tries to retrieve 13 lost treausures in a fanatasy world. Initially the game did not feature any graphics at all. As time progressed, though, ports to more advanced systems were enhanced with visuals.

GameplayPuzzles GenreAdventure GenrePuzzle ThemeFantasy
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Traitinteractive fiction Traittext adventure

Game profile / Plain language

Adventureland: release, platforms, and facts

Studio, play style, releases, and official sources — compactly prepared from external IGDB data.

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Studios & ownership

Studio & publishing

Developer
Scott Adams
Publisher
Creative Computing Software, Adventure International, StarCraft, Texas Instruments Incorporated
Franchise
Standalone
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So spielt es sich

Spielprofil

Modi
Single player
Perspective
Text
Themes
Fantasy
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Wo & wann

Platform releases

  • Acorn Electron 1985
  • Apple II 1980
  • Atari 8-bit 1981
  • BBC Microcomputer System 1983
  • TRS-80 Color Computer 1983
  • ZX Spectrum 1985
  • Commodore PET 1980
  • Commodore VIC-20 1981
  • FM-7 1984
  • PC-8800 Series Jul 01, 1984
  • Dragon 32/64 1985
  • PC-9800 Series Jul 01, 1984
  • TRS-80 1978
  • Commodore C64/128/MAX 1982
  • Texas Instruments TI-99 1981

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