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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. Finally..... by m.lemur · · Score: 5, Funny

    someone's found something useful to with Flash!

    1. Re:Finally..... by slaker · · Score: 4, Funny

      Coulda been worse. They could've done the atari version of ET.

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    2. Re:Finally..... by standsolid · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now they need to make a flash intro for the website of flash adventure. I kept forgetting what website I was visiting before these web artists... or should i say gurus... put theses lovely reminders in.

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  2. Re:This is a Great Game! by LittleBigScript · · Score: 3, Funny

    2600 game one Flash...too bad I can't play it in lynx...grrrr....stupid 386.

  3. jerkcity by elohim · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity558.html

  4. An Age-Old Question by mgrochmal · · Score: 4, Funny
    Now I can relive my younger years of retina-burning enjoyment. ^_^ One question comes to mind, though:

    "How do I get this freakin' duck away from me!?"

    Kudos to those who get the reference. IN any case, this game's getting bookmarked. It'll be fun to tinker with.

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    1. Re:An Age-Old Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hehe...I believe it's: "Somebody get this freakin' duck away from me!" (Move mouse over email)

    2. Re:An Age-Old Question by scrytch · · Score: 3, Funny

      As a kid, I just sort of took it for granted that my big one-pixel adventurer could be eaten by a ravenous dragon duck, sit in the stomach of said satiated dragon duck that would get picked up by a bat that would carry the now airborne satiated dragon duck around and eventually impale the dragon duck on an arrow sword, leaving me alone, immobilized, and undigested in the belly of a grounded full dead dragon duck.

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  5. too young by zapod4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm too young for this. I have it loaded and all I see are boxes and lines. Something must be wrong...

    1. Re:too young by whereiswaldo · · Score: 2, Funny

      You forgot something...

      LOAD "LEMONADE",1
      Go see a movie. Play with your dog. Have lunch.
      RUN

  6. You insensitive clod! by Penguinoflight · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not old enough to have played "adventure" you insensitive clod!

    What is a clod anyway??

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  7. It's no wonder ATARI went out of business by the_other_one · · Score: 5, Funny

    They sold a game cartridge that just displayed

    Click here to get the plugin

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  8. Download time by Analysis+Paralysis · · Score: 5, Funny
    Before Slashdotting:
    "Note: Allow One minute to download. Requires IE5."


    After Slashdotting:
    "Note: Go to bed and have a nap. Still requires IE5".

  9. That's crazy! by mfos.org · · Score: 5, Funny

    What next, a text version of Quake?

    Oh ... wait.

  10. My character is a what? by serps · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's something nostalgic about playing a game you played as a kid, way back when there was nothing unusual that your character was a pixel the size of your fist.

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  11. Re:Requires IE5 by ChaoticLimbs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great! I can use my Xbox, Xbox Linux, Mozilla 1.1 and the flash plugin to play Atari 2600 games! This rocks!

  12. Adventure? by andfarm · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hall of the Mountain King
    You are in the hall of the mountain king, with passages off in all directions.

    A huge green fierce snake bars the way!

    ] OPEN CAGE

    (releasing the little bird)
    The little bird attacks the green snake, and in an astounding flurry drives the snake away.

    Oops, wrong Adventure.

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  13. Two reasons why old tech is better than new tech.. by xeniten · · Score: 3, Funny
    1. My Atari 2600 loads adventure in far less time than the flash version takes to download.

    2. The Atari version won't suffer from the slashdot effect like this flash based version will two minutes from now.

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  14. Re:Requires IE5 by shepd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cyrix made 386 processors?

    I guess I missed that one, thankfully.

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  15. The scarry duck thing known as Fhqwhgads by A+non+moose+cow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that I have discovered HomeStarRunner, I can never hear mention of the game Adventure without thinking about this

  16. well there goes another fond videogame memory.. by Zod000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always fondly thought back on adventure and how much I played and enjoyed it.... Now after beating it in about 5 min I feel that I should have gotten out a little more as a kid. Damn you slashdot and your nostalgia killing links!!

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  17. Re:This is a Great Game! by Choron · · Score: 2, Funny

    Howdy Nathanan ! Could you please be kind enough to give me my cartidge back, I never gave it to you, bastard !

    Thanks,

    Joel.

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  18. Not a complete copy (what a geek I am) by Arkham · · Score: 2, Funny
    You know what is really sad is that I was actually looking for the higher difficulty settings so I could go find the magic dot in the back castle.


    I even still have the maze memorized, and I was 6 years old when I played this?


    I gotta go grab an Atari emulator for OSX. Grundle, Yorgle, and Rhindle, here I come!

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  19. Re:Yes but this is **ADVENTURE** by Simon+Garlick · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Bonified"? :)

    Someone please conjugate the verb with the infinitive "to bonify"...

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  20. Re:Yes but this is **ADVENTURE** by Iamthefallen · · Score: 3, Funny
    2] stuff we did before nerds became "cool"

    Yeah, I remember the days when nerds were outcasts in society, nowadays, since nerds are cool, I'm invited to party with hot co-eds and cheerleaders all the time!

    All for only $19.95 a month

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  21. Re:Copyright? by Big_Monkey_Bird · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, I guess I won't be providing a link to my Flash version of Sid Meier's Civilization III then...