Adventure: Atari Archive Episode 33 

God, the hours I spent on this one. That little square sure did proxy for my active little imagination.

In my top 3 of classic 2600 titles if not #1. No way to comprehend how Robinett squeezed this out of a machine built for pong & tank in 78-79. After discovering the dot my friend and I spent many hours goofing around with the game, the tricks I recall discovering were : 1. the top of a castle has a square space that can only be accessed (like the dot area) with the bridge...you have to place it at bottom of a maze, forget where 2. you can evade dragons by wedging yourself in tiny space at either side of an open castle gate (dragon's head will touch gate and it will be forced inside) 3. when you are selecting game option 1-3, if you push down on your joystick the character will appear in the game select room 4. if you choose the option to make dragons afraid of sword, and then get rid of all objects except: sword, red dragon and bat, and then give sword to the bat, it will eventually try to trade with red dragon, who will run away from him at same speed ad infinitum...except for instances when red makes a sloppy turn and bat stabs him. To this day whenever I play a game I inevitably have more fun finding ways to break it, especially when it involves npc's battling each other! *edited #4 to include you have to give sword to bat first

I still love playing this immersive game that actually had an ending to it unlike most games from that time. We used to make our challenges to Adventure like collecting every item in one room including the dragon carcasses.

Still my favorite game ever. My parents played CC Adventure. I was 8 or 9, and couldn't get too far with it. But this Adventure I could play!! Playing this cemented my love of gaming. As crude as this game seems, it set a template still used today. Great video!

Another excellent entry to the archive. Love this series, keep them coming!

Good good good good good good, this right here is the peak of the 2600, it will never be as good as this again.

'Adventure'_was_THE_very first title on the 2600 I had ever seen in 1980; 'Maze Craze' was another; was invited to a friend's house to see it in action; there was a girl & 2 other guys invited, too; we played for hours & hours; everyone played except me b/c the game seemed too large for me (at that time, of course!), however, thoroughly enjoyed the interaction bwtn all the players involved; 'Adventure' tore down everything I thought I knew abt video games; all I knew was Coleco's version of 'PONG'; much like the narration in this video, I do see 'Adventure' in every single adventure themed game since then; Oh, I also learned abt the secret credits in the game at that time, too & what it took to research & discover them. BRAVO, sir! (*applause!*)

Also in the words of Strongbad "Somebody get this friggin duck away from me!"

when I was young I found the dot by going in the area in the black castle by using the bridge but I couldn't see it at first and thought the game glitched until my uncle said something about a hidden dot in the black castle allowing you to pass the black bar on the screen southeast of the gold yellow.

These are one of the games I did NOT own until I got older. Funnily this was also a game I didn't remember seeing at KB Toys and Babbage's back in the day. Considering how much praise this game gets you'd think it would have been marketed more. Funny enough this was a hard one for me to get into for some reason but also because I never owned the manual (I got it used) so I didn't know much about the ins and outs of how to play. I greatly appreciate the in-depth look of this game, heck I never knew the dragons had different personalities. I DO remember loosing my temper more than a few times over that stupid bat! DX

I've been looking forward to this for a whilenow

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Adventure is my number 1 game on the Atari 2600.

Another excellent video, keep up the incredible work. I think this is the single most underrated gaming channel on the whole site.

Another great job - Adventure isn't one I've spent a massive amount of time with, but as one of the more influential parts of the library, I feel like it's one I should give some time to.

I still play this game multiple times per year. It will never not be fun for me.

Awesome video Kevin, thank you. Adventure was the first game I bought after we got the VCS for Christmas in 1980. I absolutely fell in love with it and played it incessantly. I still play it often, and it's tied with The Legend of Zelda for my favorite game of all time. Worth checking out is Ro Anders' H2H Adventure, in which up to 3 people can play simultaneously to get the chalice home first.

Bless you for this interesting distraction during our time of need. Edit: shout-out to quest for the ring!

Great video. I loved adventure the first time I played it when I was 5.

excellent video

I remember that Easter egg from my youth. Yes I’m old.

I recall sleeping over at a friends house as a teenager where we walked through that first tutorial to see the easter egg after it was first discovered. It was a magical feeling. It was like you were hacking the game in a way that the programmer wanted, and peering behind the curtain in a way. That was one of the first experiences that cemented me on a path to becoming a programmer.

We're truly seeing the VCS/2600 leave its infancy around this time.

Blue Atari Logbook challenge: Play game 3 with the difficulty set as indicated. It doesn't say left or right, so presumably both. Pro (Dragon Bagger): Deliver the Enchanted Chalice to the Gold Castle on B, Master (Dragon Destroyer): Same as above, but on A, Wizard (Dragon Slayer): Find the Magic Dot and enter the Secret Room on A. I thought this was one of my original games, but since it came out after Space Invaders, I probably got it later. I liked to imagine there was an evil wizard in the game, like the manual described as having stolen and hidden the chalice. Sadly, I lost my manual, so had forgotten the name of the dragons and the bat.

Another excellent episode. Keep it up.

The year was 1982. I borrowed Adventure from a school buddy. By accident, I located the mysterious dot in the black castle. I moved it around a bit - but I figured it insignificant - maybe a programming glitch? Funny, years later, to discover the true significance of the dot!

Another great video there. Adventure actually created atmosphere, it was a marvellous game for its time. My cousin found the Easter Egg by rapidly switching the VCS on and off, resulting in a amusing letter exchange between me and Atari. "Please do not continue to quickly switch the Atari console on and off. By doing this, it does not allow the console sufficient time to set-up and initialise the game. If you continue to quickly switch your Atari console on and off, you could damage your console, and cartridges too!"

Really important we have videos like these circulating around thank you!

In the immortal words of Strong Bad: Get this freakin’ duck away from me!

My Papa also said the dragons looked like ducks

Currently working my way through Elden Ring having got my start with video game action rpgs with this one.

Got an Evercade console and was browsing for info on this game, got here. Liked and subscribed!

This was such a brilliant game all things considered.

Great video bro thank you i just started playing this game cause of ready player 1 and 2 books and i didnt know about the difficulty settings now i can finally get all the achievements for this game

My favorite !!!

Awesome - been playing this since it came out.

Love your work

Got mine at a k mart as a kid thx dad

As a kid I've explored every bit of the game but never understood how to beat it or what ANYTHING meant

I kinda wonder if the idea of solving a puzzle to find a secret message in this game had any influence on the creation of the Swordquest series?

“SOMEBODY GET THIS FREAKING DUCK AWAY FROM ME!”

I love this game but there was something that bothered me. I don't consider it a flaw if the keys are mutually locked: gold key in white castle, black key in gold castle, white key in black castle, meaning you can't win. I think it's good for kids to look around and see that it's sometimes unwinnable. I do have a problem with the gold key being locked in the gold castle, which happens like 1/29 times or thereabouts. I read he numbered the inside room of the gold castle room 18, and set it so the key could be in rooms 1-29 with no check other than to see that no more than two items are put in the same room. Had he numbered it 1, then he could have set key to be in 2-29. Or added a line of code to reject the placement if it was room 18. Or since you can get to the top of the outside of the castles using the bridge (sometimes it's a one-way trip) maybe he should have had a secret entrance to the gold castle when the key is inside? The other thing I figured out through trial after trial, (that I could have just searched for online) is that the black key is NEVER in the white castle in game 3. He numbered the insides of the castles subsequently so he could declare that the chalice starts in rooms 19-26 (but not the first room in the black castle). Since he didn't add a line of code to prevent the black key being put in the black castle it's only in rooms 1-18, meaning outside or in the gold castle. Without adding a line of code he would have had to renumber the outside rooms half lower than the black castle and half higher than the white castle to allow it. But then the black key would never be in the gold castle. SIGH. We needed that line of code so the black key could be in the white castle sometimes! I read somewhere he had the room to create a couple more monsters! Imagine a game 4 with two more fierce dragons like the red one, but one only guards the chalice and the other just roams! And how about a second bat that only grabs the chalice and the sword or acts normally but evades you if you don't have either? I was imaginative as a kid and took the manual too seriously, thinking there was an evil wizard (who stole the chalice) living in a secret room in the white castle. I read he planned to make that gap in the bottom go somewhere but changed his mind. Not sure how a warrior would beat him, though. Thanks for reading.

Baffling that the programmers who made the games weren’t considered “high value employees”.

Say it with me Adventure fans: "That f##king bat can BURN IN HELL!" But anyways, I had a friend who had mastered the Superman game to a point where he could complete it in less than 30 seconds. He had figured out where the bad guys always start, how each screen connects to every other screen and so on, with LOTS of shortcuts.

Hours spent:)

Was the flickering part of the game properties or just a consequence of limited hardware?

Imagine Dragons.

Did Robinette go on to get rich in the industry after he left Atari?

What a let down. Not this video and game. They're great, but the one that comes after it. :) 18:39

Hi, how are you! I paid tribute to Warren Robinett is a re-reading made in voxel art, called "Vox-venture" and can be played on this link etrealjunior.itch.io/

13:23 PLAY AIDS...............mmm no, I dont think I will

A video about Warren Robinett that references Activision, but makes no mention of "The Dumb Shits Club." For shame.