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- TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Maybe you'd be a good person to ask who wrote "Da Moon Rulz #1" on my car with a key.
- TheThirdWheel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19I still have nightmares of the blocky duck dragon. Still a better story line than FF X-2 =P
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15That's because there was the "bridge" in the game that allowed you to pass through some walls... you had to move it to a wall you wanted to cross though.
Never played it before? - Changa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Strongbad
Somebody get this freaking duck away from me!
/Strongbad - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yeah, and don't forget that this is the first game to ever feature an easter egg. Grab the dot from the black castle and you could walk through the rightmost wall under the yellow castle. Created by Warren Robinett.
http://www.warrenrobinett.com/adventure/adv-map1.gif - dkbeers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6This was the first game I experienced lost time with. Look up at the clock and it is 9pm.... look at the clock and it is 2am
- directedition, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Wow that brings back memories. What happened to those days where you could have a game simply titled "Adventure" and it would be a classic.
- avlasics, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It may seem stupid now, but when I was a kid, we all wished we had a friend with an Atari 2600 console. In fact, owning one was a guaranteed ticket to instant popularity.
- rushpage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Second best game ever created for any platform (yields only to Yars' Revenge).
Ahhh. . . those were the days! - griz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I remember an instance where you would get picked up by the bat while holding the sword, the dragon would swallow you and get impaled by the sword and then the bat would carry you around inside the dragon.
- Double-Z, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I saved for weeks to buy that game! I have to admit, I didn't like it and wished I'd kept the money. Still, at least it was better than the ET game which was the worst pile of crap I've ever wasted cash on.
Man, that's nearly 30 years ago, this article makes me feel so old!
My VCS 2600 still works, but I've lost most of the cartridges :( - anachronaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And here's the comic:
http://www.atariage.com/comics/comic_thumbs.html?MagazineID=48
Those were the days... - sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Adventure was a classic on the 2600! I'd like to see a walkthrough of the more difficult levels.
- TheThirdWheel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I remember my mom got me a book about Yar's revenge because I liked the game so much. It was a short "novella" I guess you'd call it. Anyways in the end the main character goes on what he knows is a suicide mission and dies!? Heady stuff for an 8 year old. I wish I could find that book.
- D1360, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Here is a flash version of the game:
http://www.simmphonic.com/programming/flash.htm# - davidlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Some differences I noticed in the flash version:
1. You can pass right through dead dragons. In the original game they were obstacles.
2. The magnet attracts objects to the closest part of the magnet. In the original game objects were attracted to the bottom of the magnet only, centered.
3. Objects never blink. In the original game, having three or more objects in the same room would cause them to blink in and out of existence, so you could pass through them. This was useful in the case of dead dragons blocking an passageway, or to locate the dot if it had been misplaced.
4. Only the first of three levels is implemented. So there is no dot, which was never in level 1.
5. When a dragon has its jaws around you, you can escape by moving eitherup or to the left. In the original it had to be to the left.
6. You are green. In the original you were yellow. - iamsjn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This is THE best game ever created for any platform hands down. It just proves that fantastic graphics don't hold a candle to over the top game play!
Long Live Adventure!! - Pie_Man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The funny thing is that when these games came out (before the crash) they were EXPENSIVE!! I remember the atari 2600 was like $100 in 1980.
The games were $40...I remember when space invaders first came out and my parents were talking about having to pay so much for it.
Yeah the Wii, PS, and Xbox are big $$$, but the Atari, in its day, put just as big of a dent in your wallet. The funny thing is now that I can back up the entire 2600 rom collection on my $8 usb drive. - davidlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ggko, Thanks. You're right.
- ggko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16. Actually you matched the colour of the walls of the room you were in.
- Petromyzon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bah! No dot!
- TheThirdWheel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I looked on Wiki and it says it came with a comic book, LOL my memory sucks I guess.
- thepctech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who found this secret room?
http://www.eeggs.com/cgi-bin/img.cgi?eid=563&type=full
This was a GREAT game! - davidlow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I got an Xbox for my birthday last year and the first game I ran out and got was the Atari anthology. Guess which game I played for the first month.
- D1360, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You have to press on "game reset" to begin...
- fak3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Too cool, don't know how much time I wasted playing this...and that damn bat would always take your stuff! Besides the 'dot' easter egg, I liked putting the magnet in front of the door on the yellow castle, then get the cup, place the bridge somewhere in that upper maze, right at the bottom of the screen, cross the bridge and you'd appear at the 'top' of the castle...then let go of the cup and watch it float down to the yellow castle gate (thanks to the well placed maget) and you win.
Really, I thought I was cool when I did this as a kid. Really. Yeah, I know. - Schug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Congradulations, you are the moon master!
- tdawson2012, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2OMGGG I was thinking about this game the other day, I used to play it when I was like 6 years old and couldn't think of the name.
- Schug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Now I understand all these Homestar Runner references:
http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Atari_Dragon
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbcollect.html - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Have you gotten any estimates?
- shawn98275, on 11/14/2008, -0/+0Oh I loved this game. This was awesome. I remember playing this for hours on end. Does anyone remember the Superman game set up in the same fashion.
- GT35R, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is an excuse for a video game?
- tehmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ADVENT/ADVENTUR/Adventure is a more likely primogenitor for RPGs.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Ahh yes, Primogenitor of RPGs.. From the strong desire to role-play a box being chased by a duck monster.. Epic.
- ragnorok999, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2What the hell was that? The little square thing didn't even stay in the lines the whole time..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+1Stupid
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