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Only Microsoft offers Adventure complete, as originally written for the DEC PDP-10, now implemented on personal computers. The ultimate fantasy/logic game, Adventure allows you to explore the depths of the "Colossal Cave,' Adventure fills an entire disk with everything you need for your exploration.
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No. 49. Dixon commented that "No game that exists on several different computers can fully demonstrate the potential of any one computer. Even so, your buys many hours of cave exploring and treasure snatching. There is only one 'set-up' but that one is rich and complex enough to keep anyone busy for
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for successfully exploring areas and gathering treasure. The environment consists of 130 rooms containing 15 treasures, 40 useful objects and 12 problems for the players to solve. The progress of two separate games can be saved on a diskette. The game features most of the content as
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Written by Gordon Letwin, of SOFTWIN, Associates. Adventure for the TRS-80 requires a single-disk, 32K system. For the Apple II" a single-disk, 32K system with either the standard disk or language card system. For just $ 29.95.
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also reviewed the game positively, writing, "This hoary old classic should be included in any player's collection of games for the IBM PC."
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many games. I suspect that many people will come back to this one after some flashier games have been permanently set aside."
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in 1979 for the TRS-80 and the Apple II under its new division, Microsoft Consumer Products. IBM later included
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as the only game in the initial software releases for the
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Index


Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Microsoft Consumer Products
IBM
Programmer(s)
Gordon Letwin
Platform(s)
Apple II
IBM PC
TRS-80
Genre(s)
Interactive fiction
Single-player
interactive fiction
Microsoft
TRS-80
Apple II
IBM PC
PDP-10
Colossal Cave Adventure
Gordon Letwin
explores caves
treasure
points
IBM Personal Computer
DONKEY.BAS
self-booting disk
DOS
The Space Gamer

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