Adventure is the first action-adventure game for the Atari 2600 game console in 1979. It was a first to allow a player to have a stash of items, which required the player to select which one to use at any given moment.
Game Play
My character was a little colored square that changed color to match the surrounding wall colors, my sword was an arrow, the keys I found (and the ultimate prize--the chalice) were all as large as (or larger) than my character thanks to then-revolutionary 8-bit graphics.
Oh, and the dragons looked just a little bit like Sesame Street's Big Bird. This fellow's name is Yorgle. I learned that from the internet; I never knew they had names, back in the day.
And this? This green fellow is named Grundle.
And
this, of course, is Rhindle. (You see what they did there? With the
initial letters of each dragon's name the same as the color of the
dragon? Isn't that clever?) You can also see here the character wielding
the mighty sword in pursuit of the magnificent chalice.I can't tell you how many hours I whittled away at this game. Back then, I knew all the twists and turns of the ridiculous mirror-image mazes, flashing from screen to screen and back again in nonsensical twists and turns.
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