Talk:Adventure (Atari 2600)

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[edit] Adventure II

Apparently, a homebrew sequel is about to be published for the 5200 on the original 32K cartridge format. should this be mentioned? and should a new page for it? There also seems to be a different sequel for the Atari Flashback 2. - 64.142.92.20 01:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sprites?

I'm gonna try to capture the sprites of the freakin duck. anybody want 'em? would it be OK to add a sprite sheet to this page? --Nerd42 04:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geniality

The man who made this game is a genius. Jesus! With little square and points he made a beauty like this!

Judging by the photograph here, he is an evil, sinister genius. -Ashley Pomeroy 04:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong release date

I'm not going to jump in and edit the article itself here since I'm not 100% positive, but I'm pretty sure (based on catalogs Atari published in 1980 with this game listed as "Coming Soon") that the game was released in 1980, not 1978. The picture label cartridges have a 1978 copyright year, but I believe that's a typographical error. The text labels (which predate the picture labels) say 1980.

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Warren Robinett, the creator of the game, writes that the game was published in 1978 on his own web site.

http://www.warrenrobinett.com/adventure/

I personally played the game in a house my parents sold in 1979 (I have a picture of my brother and I playing it), so I am sure it was released before 1980. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zouve (talk • contribs) 19:05, 6 October 2007 (UTC)


Except that the date on Warren's site is a typo. In this interview he clearly states: "I handed over my finished code (with the Easter Egg in it) in June 1979, and quit. The game was released for the christmas season in 1979." --Marty Goldberg 19:27, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Killing Dragon from Inside His Belly?

My memory is a little fuzzy, but wasn't it possible to kill the dragon after it ate you? The conditions, I recall, meant you had to be holding the sword in the upper left or left side of the player dot (since the dragon attempts to eat you from the right). Once you're eaten, you can wiggle your character around within the belly, subsequently "slaying" the dragon if the sword you're still carrying makes contact. Once dead, it was a simple matter of "walking" out of the corpse. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 192.31.106.35 (talk) 21:54, 5 January 2007 (UTC).

After you are eaten, the dragon no longer checks for collisions with the sword.--67.173.78.158 08:15, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Actual screenshot of the easter egg...

I have one. Found it rifling thru some old kodachromes. The date is Aug 1980. It is a photograph of a television screen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ducatipaso (talk • contribs) 23:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

They're easy to come by. Do a Google Images search for "atari 2600 adventure easter egg" or variations. And, of course, there's already one on the article itself. Xihr 02:57, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Adventure Box Front.jpg

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BetacommandBot 08:29, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Adventure (Atari 2600) front image.jpg

Image:Adventure (Atari 2600) front image.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:15, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Invisible dot location

The invisible dot (not grey unless shown against a wall) is in the White Castle, not the Black Castle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.33.201.122 (talk) 04:59, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

No, it's in the Black Castle.[1] Xihr (talk) 05:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Perhaps the insperation for zelda?

Ah the hours of fun... a square slaying dragons, finding keys, and saving his kingdom.

Besides the square part, it sounds like The Legend of Zelda could there be a link between the two? (pun intended)

Could be, though the original Adventure could have been more of the inspiration for both as well. You'd have to find a reference (i.e. an interview with Zelda's designers, etc.) stating what their influences were to put that in the article though. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 03:26, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
That sounds highly speculative to me. How many games have had primitive graphics to display characters, keys, dragons, and saving the world? Wikipedia is not the place for original research. Xihr (talk) 06:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Returning links to clones / ports?

Can we bring back the list of clones and ports? It seems to me that many people reading this article will immediately wish to try out the game. Perhaps they were removed for copyright reasons? They were removed in this edit. (Yes, I know I have a unbiased interest as the author of Adventure: Revisited) --Peter Hirschberg (talk) 17:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Peter - they were removed because the guidelines state they're not allowed. Yes, a lot of it has to do with trademark/copyright violations. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 18:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)