Adventure
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A Legacy for Alaric.gif
A Magicians Apprentice.gif
A Shadow on Glass.gif
Adventure In Time And Space.gif
Adventure Land.gif
After the Party.gif
Aftershock.png
Agathas Folly.gif
Akbar Khan.gif
Akyrz.png
Al Strad.gif
Another Bloody Adventure.gif
Arrow of Death Part 1.jpg
Arrow of Death Part 2.jpg
Atalan.gif
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Baby Blues.gif
Billy Barker Investigates.gif
Billy Barker TV Hell.gif
Billy Barker in Walesville.gif
Birthday Surprise.gif
Bite of the Sorority Vampires.gif
Black Knight.gif
Black Mass.gif
BlackpoolTower.gif
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Case of the Missing Adventure.gif
Case of the Mixed Up Shymer.gif
Castle Of Mydor.gif
Circus.jpg
Citadel of Yah-Mon.gif
Claws Of Despair.gif
Colditz.gif
Colossal Adventure.gif
Crown of Ramhotep.gif
Crystals of Carus.gif
Curse of Nimue (Part 1).gif
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Dances With Bunny Rabbits.gif
DarkPlanet.gif
Darkest Road.gif
DarthVader.gif
Davy Jones Locker.gif
Desert Island.gif
DungeonAdventure.gif
Dungeons.gif
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EddieSmith.gif
Ellisnore Diamond.gif
Empire Of Karn.gif
Enchanted Cottage.gif
Escape From Pulsar 7.jpg
Escape From Raka Tua.gif
Escape from Hodgkin's Manor.gif
Escape from the Planet of Doom.gif
Eye Of Bain.png
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Fabled Treasure of Koosar.gif
Fifteen.gif
Forest At WorldsEnd.gif
Foxy.gif
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Golden Apple.png
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Halls of the Dwarven Kings.gif
Hammer of Grimmold.gif
Harboro.gif
Heroes Of Karn.gif
Himalayan Odyysey.gif
House Out of Town.gif
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I'm Innocent.gif
Indus Valley.gif
Invincible Island.gif
Island of Chaos.gif
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Jack and the Beanstalk.gif
Jason Of The Argonauts.gif
Jewels Of Babylon.png
Joe Dick.gif
John's Fire Witch.gif
Journey to Death.gif
Journey to the Centre of the Earth.gif
Justice.gif
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Kidnapped.gif
King Solomons Mines.gif
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Labours of Hercules.gif
Land of the Giants.gif
Larry the Lemming.gif
Lifeboat.gif
Lighthouse Mystery.gif
Lords of Time.pdf
Lost City.gif
Lost Hoard.gif
Lost in the Amazon.gif
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Magic Mountain.pdf
Magician.gif
Mansion Quest.gif
Matt Lucas.gif
Merlin.gif
Message From Andromeda.gif
MillionDollar Great Jewel Heist.gif
Mines of Lithiad.gif
Mission X.gif
Mrs Pepper's Nasty Secret.gif
Mutant.gif
My House.gif
Mystery Island.gif
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Oasis of Shalimar.gif
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Perseus And Andromeda.png
Pharaohs Tomb.pdf
Phoenix.gif
Pirate Adventure.gif
Power Curse.gif
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Realm of Darkness.gif
Red Alert.gif
Return to Eden.gif
Rites of Passage.gif
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Seabase Delta.gif
Secret Mission.jpg
Shrewsbury Key.gif
Smugglers Inn.gif
Snowball.gif
So Little Time.gif
Sorcerers Of Ravenswood.gif
St Jives.gif
Staff of Power.gif
Strange Oddyssey.gif
Subsunk.gif
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TempleTerror.gif
Ten Little Indians.png
The Castle.gif
The Challenge.gif
The Cottage.gif
The Count.jpg
The Cup.gif
The Dare.gif
The Gladiator.gif
The Golden Baton.jpg
The Guardian.gif
The Helm.gif
The Hermitage.gif
The Last Snowman.gif
The Mermaid and the Crown.gif
The Pyramid.gif
The Time Machine.jpg
Time Bomb.gif
Timewise.gif
Tombs of Xeiops.gif
Total Reality Delusion.gif
Trap Springer.gif
Treasure Island Part 2.gif
Treasure Island.gif
Treasure of Dead Man's Cay.gif
Treasure of Santa Maria.gif
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Volcano.gif
Voodoo Castle.jpg
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Warlord.png
Waxworks.png
Westbury Mystery.gif
Winter Wonderland.gif
Worm in Paradise.gif
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Yellow Peril.gif
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Zacaron Mystery.gif
Adventure Games
From Wikipedia:
Adventure games are a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. Adventure games were initially developed in the 1970s and early 1980s as text-based interactive stories, using text parsers to translate the player's commands into actions. Text adventures convey the game's story through passages of text, revealed to the player in response to typed instructions. Early text adventures, Colossal Cave Adventure or Scott Adams' games, used a simple verb-noun parser to interpret these instructions, allowing the player to interact with objects at a basic level, for example by typing "get key".
I first started playing text adventures in the early 80s, on a Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum. The very first adventure I played was 'Planet of Death'. This was a very primitive adventure by today's standards, but I was immediately hooked, and have been playing these games ever since.
The very first adventure is generally acknowledged to be Colossal Cave Adventure, which was developed for mainframe computers. Versions of this have appeared for virtually every home computer since. One of my favourite versions is Colossal Adventure, which was produced by the British company Level 9.
One of the main frustrations in playing these games was the risk of getting stuck in the game. Hint columns appeared in the computer magazines of the time, but you were lucky if the answer to your particular problem was covered. Today there are sites which have these games available for download and other sites which provide solutions. The one that I use all the time is the Classic Adventure Solution Archive. This site has solutions for virtually every text adventure you can think of.
One of the things I enjoy is creating maps of the games I am playing. These used to be produced on squared paper, but I now use Microsoft Visio which is incredibly flexible. Some of the games I have produced maps for are listed on the side here. Click on a game to view the map.