Talk:Adventure (1980 video game)
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"The game was conceived as a graphical version of the 1977 text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure." That statement is in error. Except for its appropriated name, this particular Atari videogame is nothing like, and unrelated to, Will Cowther's and Don Woods' original text-based game. 97.113.157.8 (talk) 16:53, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
- From one of our sources
I lived in a group house with five or six people, and one of my housemates, Julius Smith, took me over to where he worked at Stanford AI labs, and I played the original text adventure Colossal Cave, by Willie Crowther and Don Woods. I played it for three or four hours, and I thought it was really cool." "But I also thought – I could do this as a video game. A pretty big transformation was required, however. Crowther and Woods had created a text adventure only – there were no graphics at all. Everything was described, and you could type in "take the lamp, take the keys, go south" – you know how it works. It would describe where you were, and you could pick up objects and carry them around and you'd encounter obstacles, and you could use objects to get past them. So how could I turn that into a video game where you're using shapes to represent those things instead of words? And how would you take the joystick with one button to control an adventure game? That was the problem I had to solve."
- --Masem (t) 18:19, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
- Good find! You know, the Atari game may have been inspired by Adventure, as many, many games were--and continue to be--but the two are so different as to defy direct comparison. One thing that might be said, given the Atari game's utter simplicity and lack of interactive text, is that Atari's Adventure would be a good introduction to the basic concepts of D&D-influenced games for younger kids. 97.113.157.8 (talk) 23:12, 29 July 2023 (UTC)