Pirate Adventure
Adventure International 1979
- Aka:
- Pirate's Cove
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Alexis Adams, Scott Adams
- Systems:
- SAGA
- Platforms:
- Apple II, Atari 400/800, BBC/Electron , C16/Plus4, C64/128 , Dragon 32/64 , Exidy Sorcerer , MSX/MSX2, PC , PET, Spectrum, TI-99/4A, TRS-80 , VIC20
- Genres:
- Magic, Pirates, Stuck on island
- 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]
- Entered by:
- Alastair, Alex, dave, Garry, Gunness, iamaran, jgerrie, leenew, Strident
- Added:
- 10-05-2010
- Edited:
- 12-09-2022
Synopsis
Plot
Only by exploring this strange island will you be able to uncover the clues necessary to lead you to your elusive goal - recovering the lost treasures of Long John Silver.Notes
Also available in Japanese. Translated to German and ported to TAG by Christian Blümke.A type-in version of the game, for TRS-80, was published in the December 1980 version of Byte Magazine.
Apart from the first sequel, a second sequel/remake was released in the year 2000.
As well as the original official versions for multiple microcomputers, there are many third-party ports of this game. New interpreters for the Scott Adams also allow the game to be run on many more platforms than originally targeted.
An unofficial, hacked version titled Monkey Island was written using Tex-Comp Adventure Editor. It is playable on the TI-99/4A.
A version in SmallBasic was produced in 2003 by Joseph Whitton.
The game has been ported to Z-machine.
The game was ported to Hugo by Julian Arnold in 1997.
There is an unofficial (2022) port of the game for VZ200 by R. Banks & S. Marks.
A version of the original December 1980 Byte Magazine version of the game was produced in 2020 by Lurkio for the BBC Micro.
A version of the original December 1980 Byte Magazine listing of the game was produced in 2021 by Jim Gerrie for the TRS-80 MC-10. PIRATE can be selected from the Cassette menu and played online here.
Resources (Upload file)
- Solution
- by Gunness
- Map
- by zjuric
- Map
- by nimusi
- Map
- by Exemptus
- Further Info:
- Scott Adams' story & source code
- 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 Plus/4 World
- 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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This was a nice read and a breeze. Almost no "cruel" situations so get out there and get your Pirate Adventure on! Gonna need more Rum.
Very compact, nice, clean design. Ideal for beginners, as puzzles are accessible and logical but not obvious. Immensely popular in the days of the nascent domestic micro scene, and with good reason.
It's hard to put a finger on, put the gameplay is really good once you get the hang of the two-word parser. Recommended.