Adventure International and Scott Adams
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I wrote a new entry on Adventure International to follow up my Wiki edits on Scott Adams. Sometimes, I think people forget about this early video and computer gaming history. I grew up playing Adventureland, Secret Mission and the Questprobe games. I remember me and a group of friends were never able to complete Secret Mission, but we lover it, even though we were dumbfounded.
An exceprt of what I wrote about Adventure International:
Adventure International was a computer and video game publishing company. The company was created and founded by Scott Adams, the so called godfather of text based adventure games.
History
Adventure International was founded in 1978 by Scott Adams shortly after he created his first text based adventure computer game for the TRS-80 personal computer. That first game was Adventureland. After Adventureland, the schedule at which games were released by Adams and Adventure International was fairly quick. The first games released by the company following the premier effort were also mostly created by Adams and were also text based adventure games. Those first games included Pirate Adventure, Secret Mission and The Count.
The company went on to release games that Adams worked on with others too, and those created solely by other creators. After many of these games, the company gained what would then be a very early agreement to create computer games based on Marvel Comics characters. These games were released under the Questprobe moniker and included games featuring Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk and the Fantastic Four. The company also released a very hard to find and rare game based on the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.