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Well where does it begin? The first known adventure was a mainframe game which was a very simple text adventure from around 1968 It was called "Colossal Cave". at around 1979 Roberta Williams come across this game and from the simplist commands such as typing in "go north" >You are now north, she was hooked.
She then began to search in the vain hope there might be more but alass to her dismay there wasnt so she did what any person would do in that situtation and began to write her own the name of this adventure was "Mystery House", realeased in 1980, thus was born Sierra and the rest as they say is history.
"Wizard and the Princess" was soon to follow and followed bye "mission asteroid","Time zone", and "The Dark Crystal"
In 1984 was released one of the most popular series ever this of course was the KingsQuest series This followed bye the adult orientated "Lessure Suit Lary".
At around this time to was born a company famous for its text adventures this was Infocom
Very early on they produced the adult and infamous "Leather goddesses Of Phobos" know for its dry wit and humour this was followed bye the classic "Hitch Hickers Guide To The Galaxy" which was co produced bye Infocom and the sadly missed Douglas Adams. I remember buy this and thinking "Oh what fun this is simple text yet it was like a book where your imagination could run wild.
There where may other adventures then too in cluding the advanced for its time "The Hobbit" on the Amstrad64 which had not only text but crude grafix too and even though it was buggy it was still fun to play.
In 1989 or there abouts came a game that was to change the history of adventure/rpg for good this was Dungeon Master and what an absolute classic this game tured out to be and what a stroke of genius someone had to bundle it with a 512 ram upgrade(this is how i got mine). I was totally hooked and played for hours and hours
Not long after around 1991 came "Eye Of The Beholder" followed bye "Eye Of The Beholder 2" theese two where great classics and bye todays standards the flick screen grafix were crude but very affective.
Around the mid 1990 the now imfamous "Might and Magic" series was born I remember playing Might and Magic 6 which was the first true 3d adventure game i had played and wow it was good. Even today I still like to play it.
In about 1996 was to come another true classic It was "Tomb Raider" with the cult hero Lara Croft and her two famous assets (no not those) her twin six shoters. This game was totally different from anything that had gone on before and sold millions world wide. You followed Lara in caves, across rivers, around lava streams. Then came "Tomb Raider2" which improved vastly on the last 3 was to follow through London, India ect.
Now this is soon to be followed up bye "Tomb Raider6" "The Angel Of Darkness".
Another classic adventure and prehaps one of the best is the truely classic "Indian jones and the Fate of Atlantis". I was a very large adventure where you could chice one of 3 ways to solve the puzzles and win through at the end either join,fight, or think. I have managed all 3 ways of this.
So there you have it. It has been truely an adventure going through the eras of adventure and typing this lot.
davyboy ;0)
She then began to search in the vain hope there might be more but alass to her dismay there wasnt so she did what any person would do in that situtation and began to write her own the name of this adventure was "Mystery House", realeased in 1980, thus was born Sierra and the rest as they say is history.
"Wizard and the Princess" was soon to follow and followed bye "mission asteroid","Time zone", and "The Dark Crystal"
In 1984 was released one of the most popular series ever this of course was the KingsQuest series This followed bye the adult orientated "Lessure Suit Lary".
At around this time to was born a company famous for its text adventures this was Infocom
Very early on they produced the adult and infamous "Leather goddesses Of Phobos" know for its dry wit and humour this was followed bye the classic "Hitch Hickers Guide To The Galaxy" which was co produced bye Infocom and the sadly missed Douglas Adams. I remember buy this and thinking "Oh what fun this is simple text yet it was like a book where your imagination could run wild.
There where may other adventures then too in cluding the advanced for its time "The Hobbit" on the Amstrad64 which had not only text but crude grafix too and even though it was buggy it was still fun to play.
In 1989 or there abouts came a game that was to change the history of adventure/rpg for good this was Dungeon Master and what an absolute classic this game tured out to be and what a stroke of genius someone had to bundle it with a 512 ram upgrade(this is how i got mine). I was totally hooked and played for hours and hours
Not long after around 1991 came "Eye Of The Beholder" followed bye "Eye Of The Beholder 2" theese two where great classics and bye todays standards the flick screen grafix were crude but very affective.
Around the mid 1990 the now imfamous "Might and Magic" series was born I remember playing Might and Magic 6 which was the first true 3d adventure game i had played and wow it was good. Even today I still like to play it.
In about 1996 was to come another true classic It was "Tomb Raider" with the cult hero Lara Croft and her two famous assets (no not those) her twin six shoters. This game was totally different from anything that had gone on before and sold millions world wide. You followed Lara in caves, across rivers, around lava streams. Then came "Tomb Raider2" which improved vastly on the last 3 was to follow through London, India ect.
Now this is soon to be followed up bye "Tomb Raider6" "The Angel Of Darkness".
Another classic adventure and prehaps one of the best is the truely classic "Indian jones and the Fate of Atlantis". I was a very large adventure where you could chice one of 3 ways to solve the puzzles and win through at the end either join,fight, or think. I have managed all 3 ways of this.
So there you have it. It has been truely an adventure going through the eras of adventure and typing this lot.
davyboy ;0)
That sucks man, where's Monkey Island the Daddy of all adventure games.
Well where does it begin? The first known adventure was a mainframe game which was a very simple text adventure from around 1968 It was called "Colossal Cave". at around 1979 Roberta Williams come across this game and from the simplist commands such as typing in "go north" >You are now north, she was hooked.
She then began to search in the vain hope there might be more but alass to her dismay there wasnt so she did what any person would do in that situtation and began to write her own the name of this adventure was "Mystery House", realeased in 1980, thus was born Sierra and the rest as they say is history.
"Wizard and the Princess" was soon to follow and followed bye "mission asteroid","Time zone", and "The Dark Crystal"
In 1984 was released one of the most popular series ever this of course was the KingsQuest series This followed bye the adult orientated "Lessure Suit Lary".
At around this time to was born a company famous for its text adventures this was Infocom
Very early on they produced the adult and infamous "Leather goddesses Of Phobos" know for its dry wit and humour this was followed bye the classic "Hitch Hickers Guide To The Galaxy" which was co produced bye Infocom and the sadly missed Douglas Adams. I remember buy this and thinking "Oh what fun this is simple text yet it was like a book where your imagination could run wild.
There where may other adventures then too in cluding the advanced for its time "The Hobbit" on the Amstrad64 which had not only text but crude grafix too and even though it was buggy it was still fun to play.
In 1989 or there abouts came a game that was to change the history of adventure/rpg for good this was Dungeon Master and what an absolute classic this game tured out to be and what a stroke of genius someone had to bundle it with a 512 ram upgrade(this is how i got mine). I was totally hooked and played for hours and hours
Not long after around 1991 came "Eye Of The Beholder" followed bye "Eye Of The Beholder 2" theese two where great classics and bye todays standards the flick screen grafix were crude but very affective.
Around the mid 1990 the now imfamous "Might and Magic" series was born I remember playing Might and Magic 6 which was the first true 3d adventure game i had played and wow it was good. Even today I still like to play it.
In about 1996 was to come another true classic It was "Tomb Raider" with the cult hero Lara Croft and her two famous assets (no not those) her twin six shoters. This game was totally different from anything that had gone on before and sold millions world wide. You followed Lara in caves, across rivers, around lava streams. Then came "Tomb Raider2" which improved vastly on the last 3 was to follow through London, India ect.
Now this is soon to be followed up bye "Tomb Raider6" "The Angel Of Darkness".
Another classic adventure and prehaps one of the best is the truely classic "Indian jones and the Fate of Atlantis". I was a very large adventure where you could chice one of 3 ways to solve the puzzles and win through at the end either join,fight, or think. I have managed all 3 ways of this.
So there you have it. It has been truely an adventure going through the eras of adventure and typing this lot.
davyboy ;0)
She then began to search in the vain hope there might be more but alass to her dismay there wasnt so she did what any person would do in that situtation and began to write her own the name of this adventure was "Mystery House", realeased in 1980, thus was born Sierra and the rest as they say is history.
"Wizard and the Princess" was soon to follow and followed bye "mission asteroid","Time zone", and "The Dark Crystal"
In 1984 was released one of the most popular series ever this of course was the KingsQuest series This followed bye the adult orientated "Lessure Suit Lary".
At around this time to was born a company famous for its text adventures this was Infocom
Very early on they produced the adult and infamous "Leather goddesses Of Phobos" know for its dry wit and humour this was followed bye the classic "Hitch Hickers Guide To The Galaxy" which was co produced bye Infocom and the sadly missed Douglas Adams. I remember buy this and thinking "Oh what fun this is simple text yet it was like a book where your imagination could run wild.
There where may other adventures then too in cluding the advanced for its time "The Hobbit" on the Amstrad64 which had not only text but crude grafix too and even though it was buggy it was still fun to play.
In 1989 or there abouts came a game that was to change the history of adventure/rpg for good this was Dungeon Master and what an absolute classic this game tured out to be and what a stroke of genius someone had to bundle it with a 512 ram upgrade(this is how i got mine). I was totally hooked and played for hours and hours
Not long after around 1991 came "Eye Of The Beholder" followed bye "Eye Of The Beholder 2" theese two where great classics and bye todays standards the flick screen grafix were crude but very affective.
Around the mid 1990 the now imfamous "Might and Magic" series was born I remember playing Might and Magic 6 which was the first true 3d adventure game i had played and wow it was good. Even today I still like to play it.
In about 1996 was to come another true classic It was "Tomb Raider" with the cult hero Lara Croft and her two famous assets (no not those) her twin six shoters. This game was totally different from anything that had gone on before and sold millions world wide. You followed Lara in caves, across rivers, around lava streams. Then came "Tomb Raider2" which improved vastly on the last 3 was to follow through London, India ect.
Now this is soon to be followed up bye "Tomb Raider6" "The Angel Of Darkness".
Another classic adventure and prehaps one of the best is the truely classic "Indian jones and the Fate of Atlantis". I was a very large adventure where you could chice one of 3 ways to solve the puzzles and win through at the end either join,fight, or think. I have managed all 3 ways of this.
So there you have it. It has been truely an adventure going through the eras of adventure and typing this lot.
davyboy ;0)