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Microsoft Adventure

🏢 Gordon Letwin, Softwin Associates 📅 01 Jun 1979 🎮 Microsoft Consumer Products / Gordon Letwin / Colossal Cave
Standing as a monumental, historic milestone as the very first commercial video game ever published by Microsoft in its corporate history, early Microsoft software architect Gordon Letwin created Microsoft Adventure in 1979 for the TRS-80 and Apple II (and later as an official 1981 IBM PC DOS launch title), pulling off an engineering triumph by delivering the very first complete, unabridged microcomputer port of Crowther and Woods' Colossal Cave Adventure—featuring all 130 rooms, 15 treasures, wandering axe-throwing dwarves, the giant green snake, and iconic magic words like XYZZY.

🎬 Deep Vision & Technical Analysis

🌆 Atmosphere & Visual Direction

Atmospheric green-screen subterranean text labyrinth with roaring underground rivers, jewel-filled chambers, and lurking dwarves.

⚡ Action Pacing & Physics Engine

Methodical two-word verb-noun command deduction, spatial inventory puzzles, and high-stakes subterranean treasure hunting.

🎯 Performance & Launch Trajectory

Microsoft's historic inaugural commercial video game release and an essential text adventure milestone.

Microsoft Adventure is an interactive fiction game published in 1979 by Microsoft for the TRS-80 and Apple II, then released in 1981 by IBM for the IBM PC. It is based on the PDP-10 mainframe game Colossal Cave Adventure. It was programmed for Microsoft by Gordon Letwin of Softwin Associates.

Gameplay

Microsoft Adventure is a text game in which the player explores caves and acquires treasure, using one- or two-word commands to move or manipulate objects, and the game awards points for successfully exploring areas and gathering treasure. There are 130 rooms containing 15 treasures, 40 useful objects, and 12 problems for the player to solve. The progress of two separate games can be saved on a diskette. The game includes most of the content from Colossal Cave Adventure, along with a few locations unique to this version.

Release

Microsoft originally released Microsoft Adventure in 1979 for the TRS-80 and the Apple II under its new division, Microsoft Consumer Products. IBM later included Microsoft Adventure as the only game in the initial software releases for the IBM Personal Computer, making it one of the first two games available for the new computer along with DONKEY.BAS (included with the operating system). It was released on a single-sided 51⁄4 inch self-booting disk.

Reception

Carrington Dixon reviewed Microsoft Adventure in The Space Gamer No. 49. Dixon commented that “No game that exists on several different computers can fully demonstrate the potential of any one computer. Even so, your [money] buys many hours of cave exploring and treasure snatching. There is only one ‘setup’ but that one is rich and complex enough to keep anyone busy for many games. I suspect that many people will come back to this one after some flashier games have been permanently set aside.” PC Magazine also reviewed the game positively, writing, “This hoary old classic should be included in any player’s collection of games for the IBM PC.”

References

External links

  • Microsoft Adventure at MobyGames