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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.
However, with 128 bytes of RAM and 4096 bytes of ROM, Atari's Adventure was a much simpler program, and with only a joystick for input, the set of "commands" was necessarily brief. [3] Adventure was a hit upon its 1979 release, and it eventually sold a million copies. [2] The Adventure Easter egg: "Created by Warren Robinett"
Yars' Revenge is a 1982 fixed shooter video game developed by Howard Scott Warshaw and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS). [a] Set in the Razak solar system, it focuses on the conflict between the Yars, a fly-like humanoid alien race, and the Qotile, who have destroyed their habitable planets.
The Atari 2600 version of Pitfall! was awarded "Best Adventure Video Game" at the 4th annual Arkie Awards in 1983. [ 47 ] Reviewing the Intellivision version in March 1983, Phil Wiswell wrote in Video Games that it was the same game in every aspect as the Atari 2600 version, but criticized the release for not taking advantage enough of ...
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.
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Atari Games Corporation was an American producer of arcade video games, active from 1985 to 1999, then as Midway Games West Inc. until 2003. It was formed when the coin-operated video game division of Atari, Inc. was transferred by its owner Warner Communications to a joint venture with Namco, being one of several successor companies to use the name Atari.