Generic Adventure 551

Box front of Generic Adventure 551

Details

Released
1990
Developer
Magnus olsson
Publisher
Freeware
Genre
Adventure / Interactive Fiction
Players
Up to 1; single player
Type
Freeware \ Shareware
Platform
MS-DOS
Pack
eXoDOS
Manual
Included in the pack (TXT)

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Screenshots

Title screen of Generic Adventure 551
Title screen
Gameplay of Generic Adventure 551
Gameplay

About this game

Generic Adventure 551 is a version of the classic interactive fiction game Adventure (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure). It is based on Dave Long's 350 point Fortran version (1978) which was later (around 1984) expanded to 551 points by different authors The code was later touched by Doug McDonald so it could be compiled with Fortran translation tools and released to the Usenet in August 1990. His code was then ported to other platforms.

The basic content does not differ from the original: the player searches a mysterious cave for treasure. This requires exploring the environment and solving puzzles by typing in commands into a parser. The DOS port adds the ability to save the game to different files and the Amiga ports has a different front-end.

Also known as

Generic Adventure 551World

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Collection
Adventure versions