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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.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
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.
Cut & Paste is a simple word processor released by Electronic Arts in 1984 for $50 (equivalent to $147 in 2023). It was developed in a time when the ability to cut, copy, and paste text (now known as a clipboard) was a significant feature for home computers. Its package is a hard plastic box which opens like a book, containing a program floppy ...
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"
Swordquest is a series of video games originally produced by Atari, Inc. in the 1980s as part of a contest, consisting of three finished games, Earthworld, Fireworld and Waterworld (with these titles occasionally appearing on cartridge labels and boxes with capitalized central Ws, e.g. EarthWorld), and a planned fourth game, Airworld.
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]
Last Ninja 2; Last Ninja III; Last Shoot-em Up! Last Trooper (The) Leaderboard; Leader Board Pro Golf Simulator - Tournament Disk I (expansion) League Challenge; Leander; Leather Goddesses of Phobos; Leatherneck; Leavin' Teramis; LED Storm; Lee Enfield - An Amazon Adventure (aka Bob Morane - Jungle) Lee Enfield - Space Ace (aka Bob Moran ...