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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”

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”

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”

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”

Gargoyle Castle is a text adventure for the TRS-80. The player must explore two castles for a total of 10 treasures, and return them to the castle throne room. Treasures include: a huge ruby, a complete Gutenberg bible, a shimmering ring, a crystal bird locked in a cage, a rope bound gargoyle, and more. Most items … Continue reading “Gargoyle Castle”

King George’s daughter Priscilla has been kidnapped by an evil wizard named Harlin, who holds her in his castle. The King offers half of his kingdom to anyone who would venture into the faraway mountain land, enter the castle, defeat Harlin, and bring back the princess. Only one adventurer is brave enough to accept this … Continue reading “Hi-Res Adventure #2: The Wizard and the Princess”

Mystery House is a monochrome interactive fiction adventure game that places the player in a Victorian mansion with seven other people. As the player explores the mansion, he discovers that there is a killer murdering each guest one by one. The objective of the game is to figure out who the murderer is before the murderer … Continue reading “Hi-Res Adventure #1: Mystery House”

In this game, you play an astronaut who is asked by Mission Control to send a rocket up to an asteroid and blow it up before it reaches Earth. The trouble is: you will be unable to find the asteroid without a flight plan. This early adventure game is very short, and, in order to … Continue reading “Hi-Res Adventure #0: Mission Asteroid”

Zork: The Great Underground Empire is a classic text adventure game. The player begins as an “adventurer” standing near a white house in a nice forest, but soon descends into the Great Underground Empire, where most of the game takes place. The player’s quest is to collect the Nineteen Treasures of Zork. As was typical … Continue reading “Zork I: The Great Underground Empire”

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is the sequel to 1991’s The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past; (while in the West the titles of the two games differ, the Japanese version adds but a «2»). The player is in control of Link, who has to explore a world (or two) and overcome … Continue reading “Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds”