adventure

A few scenes from the text adventure "Adventure": ---
You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.
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You are inside a building, a well house for a large spring.

There are some keys on the ground here.
There is a shiny brass lamp nearby.
There is food here.
There is a bottle of water here.
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You are in a 20-foot depression floored with bare dirt. Set into the dirt is a strong steel grate mounted in concrete. A dry streambed leads into the depression.

The grate is locked.
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You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
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You are in a debris room filled with stuff washed in from the surface. A low wide passage with cobbles becomes plugged with mud and debris here, but an awkward canyon leads upward and west. A note on the wall says "Magic word XYZZY".

A three foot black rod with a rusty star on an end lies nearby.

Adventure also contained the very first hidden secret, or "Easter Egg," ever included in a video game, hiding Robinett's name in a special room somewhere in the maze. He included the egg to get around the policy Atari had at the time of not publicly crediting its programmers. Robinett has said that the graphic of his name takes up 5% of the ROM space in the Adventure cartridge. The entire ROM for Adventure itself is only four kilobytes in size, which is less than half the size of an empty Microsoft Word 2000 document.

A well-made recreation (not emulation) of Adventure with a few new features, called Indenture and written in assembly by Craig Pell for systems which can run MS-DOS programs, can be found at: http://www.retro-remakes.com/Adventure!/adventure.php

Ad*ven"ture (?; 135), n. [OE. aventure, aunter, anter, F. aventure, fr. LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire, adventum, to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall." See Advene.]

1.

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

2.

Risk; danger; peril.

He was in great adventure of his life. Berners.

3.

The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.

He loved excitement and adventure. Macaulay.

4.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.

Bacon.

5.

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

A bill of adventure Com., a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

Syn. -- Undertaking; enterprise; venture; event.

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Ad*ven"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adventured (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Adventuring (#).] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F. aventurer, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n.]

1.

To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.

He would not adventure himself into the theater. Acts xix. 31.

2.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

Yet they adventured to go back. Bunyan,

Discriminations might be adventured. J. Taylor.

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Ad*ven"ture, v. i.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

I would adventure for such merchandise. Shak.

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