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Flash Version of Adventure

Posted by michael on from the kill-the-dragon dept.

chefmonkey writes "Of course, everyone remembers the old Atari 2600 game "Adventure." While you've been able to play it on a wide variety of emulators for a while, now playing in your web browser is just one click away. Yes, that's right, someone has gone and created a flash version of Adventure." I haven't checked it yet to see if you can get the "dot".

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  1. Requires IE5 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Guess I'll just have to try it out at work then.
    Everyone here uses Mozilla, right?

  2. Is it just me... by SlimFastForYou · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    or does this not seem like big news...

    OMFG EVERYONE I CAN PLAY PACMAN ON MY LINUX BOX!!! LETS POST THIS ON SLASHDOT.

    I like slashdot, and a lot of stories which are posted, but... this... well...

    Never played the game so I will probably get flamed by the "Adventure" diehards ;). /me goes and plays Quake now

  3. This will save the whales! by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This is the most amazing technological development in the history of all mankind! I believe all the governments of the world should immediately shut down any and all governmental programs, combine to form one united world, and dump all of the resulting resources, in their entirety, into the continuing development and improvement of this amazing technology which will surely bring eternal world peace and salvation to all!

    Well, maybe not. But seriously, I've had this dream for probably the longest time to implement a web server plug-in that executes the old text-based adventure game engines that ran games like ADVENT (also known as Adventure and Colossal Cave Adventure), which had first appeared in the good ol' days of the PDP-10. The idea was to add on to the adventure "world" all the time, so that a TEXT BASED GAME would eventually take up many hundreds of gigabytes of hard disk space and provide endless enjoyment for people all over the world. I imagined people from everywhere creating new areas in this virtual world and turning it into some huge, enormous monstrocity. In related news, I also thought that a web-based format would work extraordinarily well for graphical adventure games like Sierra made back in the days. Man, those were the good ol' days. Oh well.