![]() I also had been unable to defeat the dragon before, but some comment along the way spoiled me to that solution. The key remaining mysteries were that I never finished mapping the “All Alike” maze or found the Pirate’s treasure. I am not starting fresh- in fact prior to picking up the game this time, I already knew how to get the majority of the treasures. I cannot possibly narrate this game since I have played so much of it for so long. Talk about dedication!) This new collaboration would eclipse the original in every way and is now the defacto Adventure. Crowther to ask his permission and to get the code, he emailed every domain name on the internet at that time. ![]() We may take a deeper look at it at some point in the future.) One such fan was Don Woods who expanded and “completed” the original game- in order to locate Mr. (This original version was rediscovered in 2007 and is playable but not winnable. Although unfinished, it traveled around the nascent ARPANET and inspired some passionate fans. Ilmari and others have already retold the history of this game, so I will just recap it in brief: in 1976, Will Crowther created an incomplete prototype of a game which he called Adventure. Three years ago, I made a concerted effort to win… but failed. For years, I would pick up the game and play a bit of it. I didn’t beat it then- I still remember my babysitter telling me that no one ever had- but it remained on my mind. It may or may not have been the first adventure game I played, but it was certainly the first adventure that I owned legally. Included in that, plus other public domain masterpieces such as Pong and Eliza, was the original 380-point version of Adventure. This story started for me at a different birthday 31 years ago: my mother had given me a copy of Software Country’s Golden Oldies collection for the Commodore 64. That provides me the flimsiest of excuse to talk about it again, but I’m going to take that excuse! Ilmari already did a fantastic review of this game (as Missed Classic #2 back in 2014), but he didn’t win in his playthrough. ![]() So I hope you will not mind that I use the occasion of my birthday to talk about an important game in my life: Adventure. I’ve started looking at Sorcerer already- and if all goes well, you’ll have the Intro post to that game next week- but I needed a break. After the “fun” that was Infidel, I needed a palate-cleanser. ![]()
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