Adventure International

Adventure International was a video game publishing company started in 1978 by Scott Adams and his wife Alexis. Their games were notable for being the first implimentation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer systems. The adventure game concept originally came from Colossal Cave Adventure which ran strictly on large mainframe systems at that time.

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Video game - 1978 - Scott Adams - Colossal Cave Adventure

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After the success of Adventureland, games followed rapidly, with Adventure International (or "AI") releasing about two games a year. Initially the games were drawn from the founders imagination own imagination, with themes ranging from fantasy to horror and sometimes science fiction. Some of the later games were written by both Scott and other collaborators. Adventure Internationals'games became known for quality, with a reputation only exceeded in the field at the time by Infocom.

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Fantasy - Horror - Science fiction - Infocom

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Fourteen games later, Adventure International began to release games drawn from film and fiction. The extremely rare Buckaroo Banzai game, developed with Phillip Case, was based on the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984). The other games came from a more well known source: Marvel Comics. Adventure International released three games based on the Marvel characters: "The Incredible Hulk", "Spiderman" and "Torch and the Thing".

Related Topics:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension - 1984 - Marvel Comics

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By the end of 1982, game tastes were changing. The traditional text-based adventure game market had moved to graphical based adventures. Games like The Hobbit had increased expectations of such games, and although Adventure International games included graphics of a sort, they were significantly inferior to contemporary offerings at the time and the company was rapidly losing market share.

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1982 - Adventure game - The Hobbit - Market share

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Adventure International went bankrupt in 1985. The copyrights for its games reverted to the bank and eventually back to Scott Adams who has re-released them as shareware. In 2000 Scott also released his first new game for many years: "Return To Pirate's Island 2".

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Bankrupt - 1985 - Copyright - Shareware - 2000

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In Europe the "Adventure International" name was a trading name of AdventureSoft and other games were released under the name that were not from Adventure International in the USA.

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Europe - AdventureSoft - USA

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Alexis Adams has remained in the online world and runs the online sex site www.fatfantasy.net .

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