Adventureland
Adventure International, PASE 
1978
- Aka:
- Adventure #1, Forest Adventure, SAGA 1
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Scott Adams
- Systems:
- BASIC , SAGA
- Platforms:
- Apple II, Atari 400/800, BBC/Electron , C64/128 , Coleco Adam , Dragon 32/64 , Exidy Sorcerer , MSX/MSX2, Nascom , Oric/Atmos, PET, Spectrum, TI-99/4A, TRS-80 , VIC20
- Genres:
- Fantasy, misc., Treasure hunt, Type-in
- Related:
- Scott Adams Adventures [1: Adventureland, 2: Pirate Adventure, 3: Secret Mission, 4: Voodoo Castle, 5: Count, The, 6: Strange Odyssey, 7: Mystery Fun House, 8: Pyramid of Doom, 9: Ghost Town, 10: Savage Island part 1, 11: Savage Island part 2, 12: Golden Voyage, The, 13: Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle, The, 14: Return to Pirate's Isle, 15: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, The]
Captain 80 Book of BASIC Adventures [1: Atlantean Odyssey, 2: Dog Star Adventure, 3: Thunder Road, 4: Deadly Dungeon, 5: Revenge of Balrog, 6: Fortress at Time's End, The, 7: Temple of the Sun, 8: Lost Ship Adventure, 9: Spider Mountain, 10: Lost Dutchman's Gold, 11: Journey to the Center of Earth, 12: King Tut's Tomb, 13: Voyage to Atlantis, 14: House of Seven Gables, 15: Sorcerer's Castle, 16: C.I.A. Adventure, 17: Arctic Adventure, 18: Adventureland]
- Entered by:
- ahope1, computerclassics, dave, Garry, Gunness, iamaran, Starscream, Strident
- Added:
- 10-05-2010
- Edited:
- 14-05-2023
Synopsis
Plot
Your adventure begins in the forest of an enchanted world. By exploring this world, you can locate 13 treasures, as well as the secret place for storing them.Notes
The very first commercially available text adventure not based directly on C&W's Adventure. The initial advert for the game appeared in the January 1979 issue of Softside magazine.Scott Adams, and his new company CLOPAS, returned to the world of Adventureland, with a remake; Adventureland XL in 2019.
Version History
As well as commercially distributed versions through Adventure International, the game was also published as a BASIC type-in listing for the TRS-80 in SoftSide S-80 Edition. The Adventure Builder was in vol. 2, no. 10, July 1980, pp. 36-43 and the Adventure Interpreter was in vol. 2, no. 10, July 1980, pp. 44-48.As a type-in, the game was also included in the Captain 80 Book of BASIC Adventures.
A cut-down version of the original game, called "Mini-Adventure Sampler" was also released.
Like the other Adventure International titles, many of the UK versions of the game (for machines such as the BBC Micro & ZX Spectrum) were ported by Brian Howarth.
Adventureland was also made available in Japanese and (unofficially) German.
As a landmark, early adventure the game has been officially and unofficially ported many times...
The BASIC version of the game was unofficially modified and ported to the Oric by L. E. Holt, and for the BBC Micro by ahope1 in 2020. Jim Gerrie has produced an officially sanctioned version for TRS-80 MC-10; downloadable via his site.
Other unofficial ports include a version for Z-machine (known to be buggy).
The adventure was ported to C by Morten Lohre. Several versions by Morten are available on the IF archive including a tweaked release of the ABASIC/GBASIC version of the game to work under QBASIC.
In 2019 Richard Goedeken produced advland2019; an enhanced release of Morten Lohre's C version, with changes to fix bugs and improve gameplay; making builds available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Richard used this work to produced Adventureland+, a version of the game in 1802 assembly language for the 1802 Membership Card; a modern clone of the COSMAC Elf RCA 1802 micro; see his GitHub for details.
A version for Atari 2600, based on one of the C ports, was produced in 2021 by Stephen Illingworth.
Resources (Upload file)
- Solution
- by Gunness
- Solution (TRS-80)
- by ahope1 ("Original" TRS-80 BASIC version)
- Map
- by zjuric
- Map
- by nimusi
- Map (TRS-80)
- by ahope1 ("Original" TRS-80 BASIC version)
- Review
- by Jewwbat
- Further Info:
- Search at ADAM Family Computer System
- Search at Atari 8-bit Forever
- Search at Atari Mania
- Search at Complete BBC Games Archive
- Search at Gamebase64
- Search at Generation MSX
- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
- Search at Oric Site
- Search at Spectrum Computing
- Search at The Dragon Archive
- Search at The Tipshop
- Search at TI-99/4A Game Shelf
- Search at World of Spectrum
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Great first adventure! Only took a couple hours to get through the RNG. DAMN those bees. Managed to die a bunch of different ways!
Here's a BBC Micro port of the TRS-80 BASIC version of Adventureland as published in SoftSide magazine in 1980:
https://github.com/ahope1/Beeb-Adventureland
Surprisingly tricky and fun to play despite its minimal design and lack of theme (it had to fit into a 16k TRS-80 Model I). The much later Spectrum version was coded by Brian Howarth, as usual for Adventure International UK ports.
The first adventure I ever played; it was on a friend's Vic-20 in 1983 as I think Commodore released the first five of Scott Adams' adventures back then.