![]() Having finished Colossal Cave Adventure, they began to search for something similar, but found the market underdeveloped. He and his wife Roberta both played it all the way through and their encounter with this game would lead to their strong influence on video-gaming history. Rummaging through a catalog, he found a program called Colossal Cave Adventure. One day, he took a teletype terminal to his residence to work on the development of an accounting program. Development and releaseĪt the end of the 1970s, Ken Williams sought to set up a company for enterprise software for the market-dominating Apple II computer. It becomes obvious that there is a murderer on the loose in the house, and the player must discover who it is or become the next victim. However, terrible events start happening and dead bodies (of the other people) begin appearing. Initially, the player has to search the house in order to find a hidden cache of jewels. Green, a surgeon Joe, a gravedigger Bill, a butcher and Daisy, a cook. The mansion contains many interesting rooms and seven other people: Tom, a plumber Sam, a mechanic Sally, a seamstress Dr. The player is soon locked inside the house with no other option than to explore. If your copy should ever fail to load (or get munched by a hungry disk drive) send it with five dollars to:Īt the start of the game there will be seven other people in the house with you.The game starts near an abandoned Victorian mansion. Should you wish to review past commands you may press return without typing to flip/flop between graphics and text. SAVE GAME and RESTORE GAME may also be used.Ī note of caution: carrying more than one note may be confusing as the computer will arbitrarily decide which one to read or drop. To return to the main view say LOOK ROOM. If you want a closer look at something say LOOK (OBJECT). There are one or two rooms where the doorways do not match up to the normal directions. Because of the difficulty ofĭrawing doorways to the south or the bottom of the screen. The left side is WEST And the right side is EAST. In general the top of the screen is NORTH. ![]() Type ' GO DOOR', ' GO HOLE', ' GO GATE' etc. ![]() When your way is blocked and you can't use directions to move you may have to refer to the actual object in your way. You may go in the directions NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST, UP and DOWN. Some of the actions you can take are GET, DROP, GO, LOOK, If you should find a staircase you may try ' UP STAIRS' or ' GO STAIRS'. If a set of words doesn't seem to be working try different terminology. Examples are ' WATER ON'Īnd ' OPEN DOOR'. ![]() You progress through the house by providing two word commands which usually contain a verb and then a noun but aren't always in that order. Eventually they are dispersed throughout the house and you start finding them - dead! You must find the killer before he (she?) ends up killing you. ![]() As you enter the house, seven other persons willīe in the living room. Hi-res Adventure #1 ('Mystery House') takes place in an old house with many rooms. Winning is quite a challenge in a game where it may take hours to move and To talk with others who may have played it.Īdventure is one of the most facinating and challenging games available for your Apple computer. We suggest you contact your local Apple users group Note: because it is now free, Sierra's gift to you, we can no longer take calls on this game. If you have enjoyed it you may send a $5 donation to Ken and Roberta's favorite Charity, We encourage you to copy this game, for yourself or to share. Into the public domain in 1987 to celebrate Sierra's 7th anniversary. From a great moment in history: Mystery House, the first graphic adventure, was created in 1980 by Sierra On-Line founders Ken and Roberta Williams, and released ![]()
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