External Links
- adaminte.zip *
To play, you can download adaminte.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - beebgames.zip *
To play, you can download beebgames.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - adamsinform.zip *
To play, you can download adamsinform.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - AdamsGames.zip *
To play, you can download AdamsGames.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - C64adv.zip *
To play, you can download C64adv.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - Int-Fic.zip *
To play, you can download Int-Fic.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - VMC10_073I.zip *
Contains VMC10.exe
Type CLOAD & hit ENTER then select ADVENT1.C10 in the JimG subdirectory of the Cassette directory. Type RUN & hit ENTER.
Windows Application (Windows XP and later) - atari8gm.zip *
To play, you can download atari8gm.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - AdamsHints.tar.Z
hint sheet
(The file is compressed with the Unix-style .tar.Z "tarball" format. Free unpacking tools are available for most platforms.)
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Adventureland
by Scott Adams profile
About the Story
Wander through an enchanted realm and try to uncover the 13 lost treasures. There are wild animals and magical beings to reckon with as well as many other perils and mysteries.
WARNING! The Z-Code conversion of this game is certifiably buggy.
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:    Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 4 |
3 Most Helpful Member Reviews
I can credit this game with my love of text adventure games. I played it when I was quite young on my Vic-20. And even though the game is sparsely detailed with a frustrating parser compared to today's games, it was quite exciting and kept me coming back to try and solve its unfair puzzles. Not really much to look at now, it might be worth checking out.
(Spoiler - click to show)The bear puzzle. Am I the only one who, even at the young age I was, solved it by becoming completely frustrated with the bear and typing screw bear? The old parser only read the first three letters of every word and the intended solution was, apparently, scream bear. So imagine my surprise when I typed Screw Bear and the response was 'The bear is so startled it falls off the ledge.' Awesome. I think it's the only game I ever had to resort to bestiality to solve a problem. Thanks Scott Adams!
This was, I believe, the first commercial text adventure. Certainly the first successful one; although Adventure and Dungeon were much more descriptive, this game fit on everyone's systems.
Gargoyle can play this game if you change .dat files to .saga. Scott Adams' website has an interpreter for these games as of 2017.
This game is ultra-minimalistic, with room descriptions often empty or as short as possible. The parser takes only two words at a time; only the first three letters of each word are read.
The game is actually quite fun, especially if you're willing to spend a long time playing around with it. It achieves the 'long time'-ness by having several situations that lock you out of victory without you realizing it, and by requiring a lot of combinations of items.
Before I played it, I thought it was an Adventure rip off, but they are very, very dissimilar. It's like the way that Antz and A Bug's Life are similar, or Monster's Inc and Shrek. They are vaguely similar, but not really.
I can remember when I first sat behind my C64, I was young and hooked on this game. Though it hasn't aged that well I can still sit down and play this for hours at end. If you haven't played this piece of history I say you should. It's a nice look back to what the past was like.
2 Off-Site Reviews
Baf's Guide
A game of historical significance: originally written in TRS-80 BASIC, this was the first adventure game to be widely available on microcomputers. It's a minimalist treasure hunt set in and around a cave - an imitation of Colossal Cave, only without the prose. Good sense of freedom, somewhat eccentric design, two-word parser (except the Inform port), magic words, a maze, and a limited light source.
-- Carl Muckenhoupt
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Scott Adams' Adventureland
It may have been Will Crowther and Don Woods who wrote the very first Adventure (see last issue's Adventure Column), but it was Scott Adams who made Adventures available to the masses. His name is synonymous with Adventures and there are very few computer owners who haven't heard of him.
Adams was first introduced to Original Adventure by his fellow employees while working as a systems programmer for Stromberg Carlson. For almost ten days, he went to work early and stayed late. He told his wife that he was working on a heavy project, when in fact he was playing Adventure. When he'd achieved the title of Grand Master, he became intrigued with the idea of getting some sort of Adventure into his own computer – a 16k TRS-80. When he mentioned this to his friends, they laughed! After all, the original FORTRAN version took 300k!
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Game Details
Current Version: 4.16
License: Former commercial
Development System: SAGA
Forgiveness Rating: Cruel
Baf's Guide ID: 3
| IFIDs: | 3B1E4CB60F0063B49245B8D7C32DEE1E |
| ZCODE-1-961111-A7B4 | |
| ZCODE-1-941017-9C4C | |
| ZCODE-4-970902-BCDB |
Adapted by Mini-Adventure Sampler, by Scott Adams
Remade as Adventureland XL, by Scott Adams
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Adventureland on IFDB
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Adventureland appears in the following Recommended Lists:Rather Old IFDB Games by HoneySpeck
These are games that fit into the category of 'rather old', i.e. they were released before 1990.
Polls
The following polls include votes for Adventureland:Solved without Hints by joncgoodwin
I'm very interested in hearing truthful accounts of at least somewhat difficult games (or games that don't solve themselves at least) solved completely without recourse to hints, walkthroughs, etc.
Influential Games by Rose
As a historical exercise, I've begun compiling a list of IF games that have either done something ground breaking with the medium or otherwise influenced it; and I've turned it into a poll so everyone can have input on the expansion....
Calling all Scott Adams fans... YOU PICK: I'll Play by diddlescatter
Okay, I've never played a Scott Adams game (*gasp!*), and I can't decide where to start. So here's my question to all you seasoned pros out there: IF I WERE TO PLAY JUST ONE SCOTT ADAMS GAME IN MY LIFE, WHICH ONE SHOULD I PLAY? Cast your...
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