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beebgames.zip *
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adamsinform.zip *
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AdamsGames.zip *
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pirate.hex
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SAhints.zip *
hint sheet and map in GUEmap format
Sols3.zip *
solution
Sols2.zip *
solution
jgunness.zip *
walkthrough
AdamsHints.tar.Z
hint sheet
(Compressed with the Unix-style .tar.Z "tarball" format. Free unpacking tools are available for most platforms.)
AdamsHints.zip *
hint sheet
adamssol.zip *
solution
VMC10​_073D.zip *
Contains VMC10.exe
Type CLOAD & hit ENTER. Select PIRATE1.​C10 in the JimG subdirectory of the Cassette directory. Type RUN...
Windows Application (Windows XP and later)
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Pirate Adventure

by Scott Adams and Alexis Adams

Episode 2 of Scott Adams Classic Adventures
Pirates
1978

About the Story

Only by exploring this strange island will you be able to uncover the clues necessary to lead you to your elusive goal -- recovering the lost treasures of Long John Silver.
Converted from original code by Paul David Doherty.
[--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]


Game Details

Off-Site Reviews

SPAG
Designers would do well to briefly dip into Pirate Adventure to observe how it manages to create a solid and evocative setting with so few words, and how the puzzles and objects are interlinked with such economy. But that is all. Pirate Adventure has little to commend itself to the modern player, though it was great in its day.
-- David Jones
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50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron A. Reed
A player who loaded the Pirate Adventure cassette into their TRS-80’s memory—a process that took upwards of twenty minutes—began the game in a modern-day London flat. [...] Saying the magic word YOHO transports you to a tropical island with crocodiles, snakes, caves, and a drunken pirate. But the goal of the game is rather unusual for the time, and Scott, writing in 1980, credited this to Alexis [...] For the first time, an adventure game was about something other than just a treasure hunt.
[...]
From the second half of 1979 through the early 1980s, Adventure International became the game industry’s first success story, and Alexis was integral to its growth. She “handles most of the business” as the corporate vice president and general manager, Scott noted at the time, and “has been intimately involved in all aspects... from the very beginning”; she “is as active in the company as I am” and had “a tremendous say in the direction of the company”.
[...]
While her husband’s name was the only one on the box—the company crafted a mystique around Scott as a solo adventure-making genius—Alexis contributed to a number of the titles Adventure International produced. Some games credit her as a co-creator on their title screens, if nowhere else, and one gives her sole billing there: 1979’s Voodoo Castle.
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