Wow, that really took me back.
Seems to be missing some elements, though. Like there was a white castle, and a bridge that let you go thru walls. Oh well…
Man, I feel old, now.

Did games like this come with some kind of text-based story? - or was it just that a certain type of game always required you to do certain stuff in order to gain access to the next bit

Hum, what? I think I fell asleep playing that.

Awesome link Les! I remember you could use the bridge to get behind the castle to a ‘blind’ maze where there was a secret dot you could find. The first ‘easter egg’ as they call them now.

Hum, what? I think I fell asleep playing that.

LOL, come on man are you that young you don’t remember the Atari or the old computer games.

That definitely took me back, and I consider myself pretty young.

Text based adventures before this…
trying to work out the correct verb/noun combos amoung all the synonyms.

>I
You have a
Wooden plank

>Look
You see a
Chasm

> Jump Chasm
It is too far to jump

>Climb Chasm
You can not Climb the Chasm

>Scale Chasm
I do not understand Scale

>Use Plank
You can not use the Plank

>Use Wood
I do not understand Wood

>Make Bridge
I do not understand Bridge

>Put Wood
I do not understand Put

>Lay Plank
You have made a bridge across the Chasm

Gaaahhh!!!

DC, the game came with an instruction manual that had some text attempting to provide a back story to the game, but that was about it. A lot of the early console games were very simple affairs that had a number of different options available by toggling the switches on the console.

Thanks LH+Les, i can see imagination was part of the fun, whats interesting is how this has become less the case with time- more is absolutely defined, but good stories can combine graphics with imaginary reality, same for films- that interpret differently with perspective

It’s incomplete.  That only allows you to play the first variation.  Variations 2 and 3 had the easter egg, other dragon and bat.  Disappointing but nostalgic fun nonetheless.

Awesome! 

For Quake III / Unreal - people made ‘Duck/Dragon’ skins and fought with them and machine guns.

For the next Unreal 2007, I am going to make the ‘Hero’ Cube, complete with yellow arrow sword >-- and use that as my fighting character.

Maybe I’ll make the cube translucent with actual ADVENTURE screens shaded in at 30% - so if you stop and look at it, you realize it is the atari game character, but when you stop and look, you get pwned!

Whoa, you had graphics…

Yes, high-tech, indeed, compared with the text games.  See here.

GO ADVENTURE! :D also uncle whats the easter egg?!  I cant find it!  I think I know… when you change the tv you can sometimes go through the wall.