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New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for September 16, 2010
September 15, 2010
September 17, 2010
Adventure preceded Zork, but grues were introduced in Zork to replace the bottomless pits. “You will likely fall into a pit and die” was Adventure’s equivalent.
In one of the early Zork changelogs there is a reference to crews going around filling in all of the bottomless pits, which is actually a task you must perform in “Zork Zero.”
Actually, my first adventure game was “Haunted House” on the TRS-80, loaded from cassette. (Long before there was ever a TRS-80 Zork, if there ever was; I know there was a TRS-80 Adventure.) Then in the early-to-mid 1980’s I wrote my first adventure game as an online game running on an Atari XE. It was based in the universe of “The Uncle Floyd Show.”
Back in 2006 I had a storyline where Victoria was trapped “in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.” I actually wrote 90% of that game and was going to release it as a bonus for readers, but a system crash lost me the source code and I couldn’t finish it in time.