Microsoft Adventure

Microsoft Adventure provides the IBM Personal Computer with a role-playing fantasy game. The game setting is a vast network of caves beneath the earth and the land outside. The fantasy world contains 130 rooms or nodes, 15 treasures, 40 useful objects and 12 problems to solve. The program allows players to store the status of two games on a diskette. It will provide useful hints, instructions and feedback on a player's progress.

Source:

IBM Press Release, August 12, 1981

Microsoft Adventure brings players into a fantasy world of caves and treasures.

Source:

IBM Press Release, August 12, 1981

MICROSOFT Adventure

A fun-filled,

action-packed

computer game

Treasure and magic

Imagine a journey through a labyrinth

of mysterious caves.

Imagine what would happen if you

were on that journey and you met up

with giant green snakes...rumbling

volcanoes...fuming sulfur lakes...

pesky trolls...and other nightmarish

monsters.

Imagine that, and many more surprises,

and you have the fantasy/logic software

game Microsoft Adventure.

Playing Adventure, you gain

undreamed of treasures. Practice the

secret arts of magic. Risk danger and

defend yourself at every turn.

If nothing else, Adventure is fun and

exciting. And you can enjoy it all today

with your IBM Personal Computer.

Hunt "Colossal Cave"

Adventure turns the IBM Personal Com-

puter into your companion and guide.

You can ask simple questions and type

simple commands on the keyboard,

which the program will understand and

execute.

With Adventure, your personal com-

puter joins you in a hazardous search for

fifteen treasures. You hunt throughout

the depths of "Colossal Cave," fraught

with all kinds of pitfalls, puzzles, perils

and adversaries.

When the game starts, you find your-

self in a lush forest beside a small build-

ing. By entering various commands and

questions on the IBM Personal Com-

puter, you explore the area, find the

entrance to the cave and discover how

to enter it. Once you enter the Colossal

Cave, you must learn to rely on your

skill and intuition.

Be a "Grand Master"

Adventure is a challenge to both

beginners and experienced players alike.

The deeper one goes into the cave, the

more sophisticated the level of play

becomes. At the end of each game, your

performance is rated according to one of

the nine categories...from "rank ama-

teur" to "seasoner adventurer" to

"Grand Master".

As you prove yourself sufficiently

skilled, more sections of the cave, with

greater treasures and correspondingly

greater hazards and puzzles, become

open to you. Because the cave is inhab-

ited with living and "thinking" oppo-

nents, each Adventure session will be

totally unique.

Enter the "Repository"

The ultimate goal of Adventure is to

exhibit a mastery of play that will gain

you entrance into the "Adventure

Repository." Here, you'll have a shot at

the Grand Master game.

But watch out. Be careful. Only would-

be Grand Masters with finely tuned

Adventure magic, skills and experience

can survive the final tests.

Since advanced players can survive in

Colossal Cave for hours, Adventure

allows you to stop the action in the

cave. You can use your IBM Personal

Computer for other things, and yet

return days or weeks later and continue

your Adventure journey.

Source:

Case inlay - PC Booter (US)