ClintTX Posted October 29, 2015 Share Posted October 29, 2015 Adventure probably set adventure gaming back several years when it was published. It's not even Robinett's best game, which is Robot Odyssey. Adventure spawned so many bad "me too" clones like Galahad and the Holy Grail for Atari 8-bit, and the Howard Scott Warsaw disasters E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark. All featuring lame Adventure like game worlds. Not to mention the failed Swordquest series. It could be said that Robinett's Adventure is at much a contributor to the video game crash of 83 as E.T. itself. Thank God, Sierra on the Apple II, and others like Dragonstomper, and the awesome Intellivision Advanced Dungeons and Dragons came along and showed developers how to make a real game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Copycat games and 'me too' were the norm back then. Everything Atari did was copied not only from within, but from all other developers like Microprose, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Sega, and many more. Atari lead the way, others were the followers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byte Knight Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Adventure probably set adventure gaming back several years when it was published. It's not even Robinett's best game, which is Robot Odyssey. Adventure spawned so many bad "me too" clones like Galahad and the Holy Grail for Atari 8-bit, and the Howard Scott Warsaw disasters E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark. All featuring lame Adventure like game worlds. Not to mention the failed Swordquest series. It could be said that Robinett's Adventure is at much a contributor to the video game crash of 83 as E.T. itself. Thank God, Sierra on the Apple II, and others like Dragonstomper, and the awesome Intellivision Advanced Dungeons and Dragons came along and showed developers how to make a real game. How could it have set adventure games back several years?! They were all text adventures prior to that! Adventure was a ground-breaking game. There is absolutely no way you can link '79 Adventure to the '83 video game crash. Quoting Kramer, "that's kooky talk!" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintTX Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 How could it have set adventure games back several years?! They were all text adventures prior to that! Adventure was a ground-breaking game. There is absolutely no way you can link '79 Adventure to the '83 video game crash. Quoting Kramer, "that's kooky talk!" Was Adventure even released in '79? I know Superman was, but I thought Adventure was released in '80. Also, Adventure didn't even have the 1st Easter egg people fawn over, Video Whizball for the channel F did back in '78. I may be too harsh on Adventure, but it was really not anything to loose your shirt over, Robot Odyssey for the Apple II is Robinett's true masterpiece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Thought Robinett had nothing directly to do with Robot Odyssey, they just reused code he wrote for Rocky's Boots. It does have a Warren Robinett room though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 (edited) Was Adventure even released in '79? I know Superman was, but I thought Adventure was released in '80. Also, Adventure didn't even have the 1st Easter egg people fawn over, Video Whizball for the channel F did back in '78. I may be too harsh on Adventure, but it was really not anything to loose your shirt over, Robot Odyssey for the Apple II is Robinett's true masterpiece. Adventure wasn't the first graphic adventure either, that was 'dnd' on Plato, but Adventure was still ground breaking. And if you want to be clever, the first easter egg was on PDP-10 in the 60s, the 'make love not war' easter egg is well known. Edited October 30, 2015 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 Adventure probably set adventure gaming back several years when it was published. It's not even Robinett's best game, which is Robot Odyssey. Adventure spawned so many bad "me too" clones like Galahad and the Holy Grail for Atari 8-bit, and the Howard Scott Warsaw disasters E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark. All featuring lame Adventure like game worlds. Not to mention the failed Swordquest series. It could be said that Robinett's Adventure is at much a contributor to the video game crash of 83 as E.T. itself. Thank God, Sierra on the Apple II, and others like Dragonstomper, and the awesome Intellivision Advanced Dungeons and Dragons came along and showed developers how to make a real game. crash 1984: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 (edited) Adventure probably set adventure gaming back several years when it was published. It's not even Robinett's best game, which is Robot Odyssey. Adventure spawned so many bad "me too" clones like Galahad and the Holy Grail for Atari 8-bit, and the Howard Scott Warsaw disasters E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark. All featuring lame Adventure like game worlds. Not to mention the failed Swordquest series. It could be said that Robinett's Adventure is at much a contributor to the video game crash of 83 as E.T. itself. Thank God, Sierra on the Apple II, and others like Dragonstomper, and the awesome Intellivision Advanced Dungeons and Dragons came along and showed developers how to make a real game. ET was a very good game for people who read the manual and managed to play it properly: Sorry, about the company name mix up, fault with DP printers. A 12 year old girl manages to play ET properly, how stupid were the boys? Maybe ET wasn't a disaster after all, boys just didn't have the intelligence. And Raiders of the lost Ark is a great adventure game in its own right. Galahad and the Holy Grail was an APX game (games made by users for commercial release) for Atari computer, written by Douglas Crockford, who went on the design computer games for Lucasfilm. That's how you got jobs way back in the industry, and Atari helped many along that route. The game was (is) still good. Edited October 30, 2015 by high voltage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 E.T. from Activision? What's she talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClintTX Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I've read the instructions for ET and have played it "properly." It didn't make it any better it's still a terrible game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 E.T. from Activision? What's she talking about? As I mentioned above, that's a printing error from DP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Punk 78 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I had a very easy time with ET when I was 6 years old. And I'm male. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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