Venture (arcade game)

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Venture

Developer(s)	Exidy
Publisher(s)	Exidy
Release date(s)	1981
Genre(s)
Mode(s)
Platform(s)	Arcade, Atari 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision
Input	8-way joystick
Arcade cabinet	Upright

Venture is a 1981 arcade game by Exidy. It was ported to a number of platforms, including the ColecoVision console.

[edit] Gameplay

The goal of Venture is to collect treasure from a dungeon. The player, named Winky, is equipped with a bow and arrow and explores a dungeon with rooms and hallways. The hallways are patrolled by large, tentacled monsters (the creatively-named "Hallmonsters", according to Exidy) who cannot be injured, killed, or stopped in any way. Once in a room, Winky may kill monsters, avoid traps and gather treasures. If he stays in any room too long, a Hallmonster will enter the room and try to chase and kill him. In this way, the Hallmonsters serve the same role as "Evil Otto" in the arcade game Berzerk.

The more quickly the player finishes each level, the higher his score.

The goal of each room is only to steal the room's treasure: in most rooms, it is possible (though difficult) to steal the treasure without killing the monsters within. Some rooms have traps that only spring when you pick up the treasure; for instance, in "The Two-Headed Room", two 2-headed ettins appear the moment you pick up the prize.

Note- the player died if he ever touched a monster or certain types of walls. Touching even a dead monster could kill you. Dead monsters would decay over time allowing you to escape if you have managed to block your way out. Reshooting a dead corpse cause it to regress back to its inital death phase.

Game consisted of three different dungeon levels with different rooms. After clearing all the rooms in a level you went to the next. After three levels the room pattern and monsters repeated, but at a higher speed and a different treasure.