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Adventure is a 1980 action-adventure game developed by Warren Robinett and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600). The player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice and return it to the golden castle.
CommaVid was a game developer and publisher for the Atari 2600 that released six games between 1981 and 1983, plus a programming tool for the console. [1] The company was founded by Dr. Irwin Gaines, Dr. John Bronstein, and Dr. Joseph Biel [2] under the name Computer Magic Video, which was shortened to Com Ma Vid, or CommaVid. [2]
Adventure is a series of fourteen text adventure and graphic adventure games primarily written by Scott Adams and published by Adventure International. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some of the games were first published by the TRS-80 Software Exchange in 1978-79 before Adventure International was formed.
The 2600 games are from Bit Corporation ported from PAL to NTSC and with different names. [2] The Atari 8-bit games were developed by Syncro, Inc. [ 3 ] Zimag's four Atari 2600 releases received more promotion than the relatively obscure computer games, but they were released during the video game crash of 1983 .
Programmer Russ Wetmore borrowed an Atari 800 from Adventure International founder Scott Adams with the intent of writing a video game. [7] Wetmore's then-spouse, Diana, suggested a "cartoonish" style of game. [8] Wetmore took inspiration from the preppy fad spawned by 1980's The Official Preppy Handbook. He wrote the game on in eight weeks ...
Oystron is an action game developed for the Atari 2600 by Piero Cavina and released in 1997. It is one of the earliest hobbyist-written games for the console. The game, Cavina's first, was initially made available as a freeware 4 KB binary file designed for use on the Starpath Supercharger and with Atari 2600 emulators. [1]
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