Somebody get this freakin’ duck away from me!

Posted on By Wil

Man, I love this game.
I have so many Atari-related memories . . . I could go on for pages and pages . . . another day. 🙂

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  1. First!
    Yup. I still have my old Atari collection downstairs…must have 120 cartridges.
    Somebody made an ‘extended’ version of adventure for the PC a few years back.
    It was damn impressive…emulated *every* little thing about the game and added a whole new section.

  2. Say, Wil…by any chance did you ever play any of the Eamon adventures? They were text-based, like Zork, but they were free. They included the source-code so that other people could write their own Eamon adventures. The local computer store had a huge binder full of 5.25″ floppy disk Eamon adventures.
    Some were hilarious, including one based on Star Wars and one based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail (that one was written by a friend of mine).
    Lotta fun…

  5. Oh. My. Gosh.
    I so need to buy this.
    “For my husband.” Uh-huh. Because I’m not Geek Girl. *I* don’t need this…..

  6. Zork! Man I loved that. Astoundingly enough, I have twin 15-year-old brothers who were really into Zork a few of years ago.
    Wil, have you ever played the more recent Zork games that have graphics? They’re terrible. What’s the point? Those original Zork games were almost literary in their descriptiveness.

  9. Those kids don’t know what it was like to only have atari and pong. They have been spoiled with xbox, ps1, ps2 and all that crap from SEGA. There is nothing like the classics. Someday they will be in our shoes. And there kids will think GTA is crap.

  11. this was the first game I ever found an easter egg on. you could somehow do something and pass through the wall somewhere and see the developers name. anyone remember?

  13. Yeah, I remember that easter-egg, sort of. You had to be holding something, I think a key, and then I think you could walk through one of the castle walls. I thought that was so cool at the time. Or maybe it was the chalice? Anyways, I played this Flash version Wil linked to a few months ago, it seems like it only took 10 minutes to finish. I can’t remember what was so cool about it when I played it on a 14″ orange TV with a little orange controller that would break.

  14. heh I know what you mean, actually I am eager to find a few parts I need to get my olde atari fixed, so I can keep on playing… no matter how many new games and interfaces are created, my favorite one will always be the atari

  15. heh I know what you mean, actually I am eager to find a few parts I need to get my olde atari fixed, so I can keep on playing… no matter how many new games and interfaces are created, my favorite one will always be the atari

  16. Wil –
    I’m currently working on an instructions page, but if you need your fix now, there’s a very good layout of the rules at:
    http://well-of-souls.com/tower
    And I have to switch the locations of the Tomb and the Bazaar. But it’s close to release 1.0. I’ll try to post somewhere when she’s ready to dance. Should be fun, until Hasbro’s lawyers poke me with a sharp pencil.

  17. The Adventure Easter Egg:
    You had to get the secret ‘dot’ and two or three other objects in the ‘hallway’.
    That combination would make the side wall passable. You could then enter the secret room that said “Created by Warren Robinett” who actually wrote the game. My understanding is that they never credited the writers for Atari games so this was his way of signing his work.
    Pretty cool.
    Warren Robinett actually has his own website:
    http://www.warrenrobinett.com/

  23. And what’s with the big black croquet hoop…?
    Very cool nonetheless. Ahhh… Memories of huge “California Games” Olympics on my brother’s Atari 2600… And “Asteroids”. Damn, I loved that game. Especially when you just zoomed up the screen as fast as you could till you blew up. 🙂

  24. Wow, that was definatly a flashback. I used to love Atari Adventure, even though the little duck/dragon people scared me when I was a little girl. Thanks for the link wil! You should post others if you have them 😀

  26. Atari still rulz!!!!! Honest, I was never terrible fond of Adventure. For the super old school cartridges on the 2600 I’d choose Video Olympics or Circus Atari.
    Hrm…my favorites: almost anything from Activision, Ms. Pac-man, Phoenix, Crazy Climber, and Frogger!
    Use to be an odd thing you could plug into your 2600 called the Supercharger which used Audio tapes. They had some of the best games EVER.
    Anyway…thanks for the Retro Memories.
    I will always be a child of the 80’s!

  28. Ok..funny this should come up cause I posted a like about this in the forum a few weeks ago. “Old Video Games” . Adventure was the game I wore out my controller with. We had to tear the controller apart and play with the touch buttons that the controller contacted on. FYI, those are not duck, they are Dragons. The black U is a magnet to draw items to you when you hold the magnet. As the levels move up there is more to explore. Man how I loved Adventure. Such an awsome game! I even found a site to down load it to my computer. I play it all the time still!

  29. Ohmygosh… I made a scene in a store the other day when I saw that joystick thingy… I was SO excited when I saw it… Could barely contain myself—Then I turned the package around and it said something along the lines of: Now you can play what your Mom and Dad used to play…
    MOM and DAD??!?!?!
    Oh the humanity…

  30. LOL Wil…I’m sitting here in my office with two Amigas, 3 CoCo’s, Intellivision, Colecovision, Atari 7800, Sega Master System, all with every cartridge and game you can think of.
    Your son is just a little to young to remember all this stuff. My kids (19-23) grew up with this stuff, and love it so much they’ve already divvied up the games in case I have an…accident. 🙂

  31. CURSE YOU WIL WHEATON!!!!! Now I have ANOTHER addiction!
    Must return the favor….
    http://www.dibblez.nl/
    (Curses…. the magnet doesn’t work like my old Atari did. You could hold the magnet at the door in one room and draw the key from the next. )

  32. Oh, I used to LOVE this game!! I forgot all about it! I remember that secret dot. I used to be really impressed witht hat secret room. LOL!
    Unfortunately, I can’t download this game for some reason. I just get a green number 1 and that’s it. Very upset here!

  34. Heh. Oh the years of time lost to playing games. I wasn’t an Atari user, but a Vic/C64/Apple/Amiga user. Omega Race, Raid over Bungling bay, Karateka, Lode Runner, Empire, Star Blazer… On and on and on…
    I now try to restrict my gaming to my PS2.

  35. O my gawd! I’d completely forgotten about this game!!!
    “Superman” was a strange one too. Reconstruct a bridge, save Lois and do something with a helicopter then get back to the phone booth to change back into Clark in the least amount of time…
    And then there was that Star Trek strategy game that you could only buy at Sears – talk about zero graphics!

  36. Yup, I spent months on end playing Zork, PlanetFall and a few others. I used to play all the side scroller Dukes Nukems also.
    Wil if you read this we still want to send you an X-Arcade to review if you’d like.
    Keith

  38. And you know what game sucked the most?
    That stupid ET game.
    It /so/ wished that it was as cool as Raiders, but it totally wasn’t.

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    The man who runs this fine page saw your delightfully popular blog, and in particular a post with 234 comments on it, and came up with an idea.
    If he can get 234 comments and equal yourself by Friday, he’ll give

  43. Oh.
    My.
    Farking.
    God.
    Deja Vu!
    Wil, can I ask you a serious question?
    Oh…Well, okay…but I’m going to ask anyway.
    Why is it, that everytime I get my mind back into 2003, you bring something up that sends it travelling at warp 9 back to the 1980s?! Sheesh!! :}
    LOL
    Well, anyway, I have the PC versions Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, and Beyond Zork. I believe all of the original Zork games have been released into the public domain. So, if you would like copies of them, let me know, and I’d be happy to get them to you somehow. That is, if you don’t already have them.
    I am assuming, of course, that you do have a Windows box and would be able to use them.
    Now, if you will excuse me, I know a certain Troll brandishing a bloody axe that really needs to be dispatched ;}
    [email protected]

  44. I was disappointed; I actually downloaded a 2600 emulator and the original ROM. That way I got to play with the bat, etc. from the game. And yeah, homestar got me wanting to play it too.
    Chris

  45. I heart you, Wil! Had you not linked that Atari site just now, I never would’ve re-discovered my favorite old Atari game =D See, I was like, 4 when I inherited my cousin’s Atari, so I have these memories about this crazy console with wood paneling and some games, but I just couldn’t remember the names of games and stuff =D

  47. Wil,
    I remember when my dad bought me my Atari system. and donkey kong and my favorite game of all Pitfall. Thanks for bringing back that memory.
    All my best, Matt.

  48. Your awesome Wil. Thanks for the link. Holy Crap, as soon as I saw the game pop up it flooded by the memories of hours spent playing that game and the damn dragon eaters. I downloaded and played the game and the more I played the more I remembered what I needed and how to get the trophy. I think you get an A+ for the day man.

  49. I loved atari, however… how do you get past this idiot? He keeps killing me before I get into the room! grrr

  50. The Flash Version of ADVENTURE is missing the Purple “Bridge” Item… other than that, just like I remembered… when I played it… last month on my Atari Emulator for my PDA. 🙂
    — Mitch

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