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Curse of the Sasquatch is a text adventure for the TRS-80. The player has been carried to a small shack somewhere in Alaska, the reason and means for this unclear. The player must survive the freezing cold of the Alaskan winter, and explore the nearby mountains and caverns beneath the shack they start in. Ultimately, the … Continue reading “Curse of the Sasquatch”
Year: 1980
Platforms: TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is an overhead dungeon crawler with strong RPG elements that sends you on a search for the Sultan’s kidnapped daughter, Princess Buddir-al-Buddoor. You journey into the (often trapped) underworld to fight the nefarious thieves. Your party is chosen from a range of 17 characters, and can feature humans, dwarves, elves, … Continue reading “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”
Year: 1981
Platforms: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, FM-7, PC-88
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Over a thousand years ago, the wizard Mondain, intent on world domination, created an evil gem which made him invincible and immortal. The protagonist, known as the Stranger, has to travel the lands in search of a time machine, go back in time to the days before Mondain created the gem, and then destroy him. … Continue reading “Ultima I”
Year: 1981
Platforms: Apple II, Atari 8-bit
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Adventure 2: The Great Pyramid, like its predecessor, is a text adventure game with little to no story. The aim in the game is to find a number of treasures that are scattered around the game world. The world comprises a great pyramid and its immediate surrounding desert. The game features save and restore functionality. You … Continue reading “Adventure #3: The Great Pyramid”
Year: 1980
Platforms: Commodore PET/CBM
Genre: Adventure
Temple of the Sun is a text-based adventure game for the TRS-80. As a student of ancient magical orders, you have accidentally discovered clues leading you to the long buried Cult of the Shaman, an extremely powerful order of wizards whose influence shaped Indian culture in the Western Hemisphere for countless centuries. Now, standing before the … Continue reading “Temple of the Sun”
Year: 1980
Platforms: TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
Reality Ends is a text-based adventure game for the TRS-80. Reality has been shattered by the forces of the Citadel of Baldir, divided up into over 200 separate realities. The player must travel between realities to build an army strong enough to conquer the city of Margon to free the Amulet of Sangi. With the Amulet … Continue reading “Reality Ends”
Year: 1980
Genre: Adventure
Volcano Adventure is a choose your own adventure type game. The catch is that there’s only one right choice for every action. The game places you on the slopes of Mount St. Helens during a volcanic eruption. The goal is to get to safety. At every turn the game describes the scenario and offers some … Continue reading “Volcano Adventure”
Year: 1980
Platforms: Atari 8-bit, Commodore PET/CBM, TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
This game puts the player in the captain’s chair of a ship of the British naval fleet circa the Napoleonic wars, strongly evoking the period immortalized in C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower novels. The player is presented with nautical, battle and regimental situations demanding executive decisions and then the player makes those decisions by typing … Continue reading “His Majesty’s Ship Impetuous”
Year: 1980
Genre: Adventure
Adventure 3: Haunted Mansion is a text adventure game in which the player explores a haunted mansion and its immediate surroundings. Hidden in the game are 20 treasures for the player to find and return to their proper place. The game plays much like the previous games in the series and other treasure hunter text … Continue reading “Adventure 3: Haunted Mansion”
Year: 1980
Platforms: Commodore 64, Commodore PET/CBM
Genre: Adventure
The old frontier town is long since deserted, but thirteen treasures can still be retrieved from the deceptive stillness of its closed mine and Boot Hill. Uncover secret passages and navigate a certain supernatural undercurrent using your VERB NOUN text parser as best you can while riding a bucking bronco, cracking a safe and learning … Continue reading “Ghost Town”
Year: 1980
Platforms: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 64, Electron, Exidy Sorcerer, TRS-80, TRS-80 CoCo
Genre: Adventure