Adventure (Atari 2600)

by Atari

Product Features

• For the Atari 2600 Video Game Console
• 3 Skill Levels
• Use with Joystick Controllers
• Catalog no. CX2613
• One of the most famous Atari 2600 games

Product Details

• ASIN: B000P58JA8
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,275 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

An evil magician has stolen the Enchanted Chalice and has hidden it somewhere in the Kingdom. The object of the game is to rescue the Enchanted Chalice and place it inside the Golden Castle where it belongs. This is no easy task, as the Evil Magician has created three Dragons to hinder you in your quest for the Golden Chalice. There is Yorgie, the Yellow Dragon, who is just plain mean; there is Grundle, the Green Dragon, who is mean and ferocious; and there is Rhindle, the Red Dragon, who is the most ferocious of all. Rhindle is also the fastest Dragon and is the most difficult to outmaneuver. There are three castles in the Kingdom; the White Castle, the Black Castle, and the Golden Castle. Each castle has a Gate over the entrance. The Gate can be opened with the corresponding colored Key. Inside each Castle are rooms(or dungeons, depending at which Skill Level you are playing). The Castles are separated by rooms, pathways, and labyrinths. Common to all the Skill Levels is the Blue Labyrinth through which you must find your way to the Black Castle. Skill Levels 2 and 3 have a more complicated Kingdom.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgia on the cheap, May 18, 2008

By 

S. Perry "Padre" (MA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Adventure (Atari 2600) (Game Cartridge)

Do you still have your old Atari tucked away for those rainy days? Do you enjoy good old-fashioned low budget graphics? Are you more then happy with a character who's just a cursor-a sword that's just an arrow-and dragons that look like ducks? If so Adventure is every bit as fun as you remember, or as much fun as all your other old Atari games. Yes it's utterly pathetic when compared with every other modern video game on the market, but for pure nostalgia it can't be beat. Grand Theft Auto 4 may be mind-blowing, but it can't make you feel like you're ten years old again. Although if it does you should probably get some sort of help for that.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Innovative for its time, November 6, 2010

By 

Ty Johnston, Author (USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Adventure (Atari 2600) (Game Cartridge)

There was a time when video games were pretty much just sports games, shooting games or some variant of sports or shooting games. Action games weren't around yet, and most RPGs were years away.

When was such a barbaric time? The late 1970s.

But into that age came a little game known as Adventure. It came out in 1979 and was made for the Atari 2600 home video game system.

By today's standards, Adventure would be a pretty dull game. Simplistic, blocky graphics. Next to no sound. Gameplay so easy it could be considered laughable.

But that's today. In 1979, Adventure was ... in a word ... awesome!

How do you play? You control a little blip on the screen that goes around castles and through mazes to find various objects that are needed in a quest to find a golden chalice and return in to the main castle. Such objects included a sword to fight off three dragons, keys to enter castles, a magic bridge and a magnet. The basic version of the game could be played in just a few minutes, a long, long way from today's RPG games that sometimes take weeks upon weeks to finish.

Adventure also goes down in history. For on thing, it is the very first video game to include an easter egg. What is this easter egg? In a secret room there are the words "Created by Warren Robinett," who was the creator of Adventure for Atari. How do you get to this secret room? I'm not going to tell! What fun would that be?

Another innovation with Adventure is that it is the very first action-adventure video game!

Being a simple game, once you've played Adventure a handful of times, you've done just about everything the game has to offer. But it's still plenty of fun.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adventure - Atari VCS game review (haven't played A2!), November 19, 2008

By 

Joseph Morris "Joe Morris" (Elmwood Park, NJ) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Adventure (Atari 2600) (Game Cartridge)

Haven't played Adventure 2 for the Atari (yet) so this will stick to the first game

Its the late 70s, you're addicted to Space Invaders, Asteroids, will later be playing games like Wizard of War, Dig Dug

You pick up the 2600 VCS. Great game with it (Combat). Space Invaders has great graphics

Pitfall! is great fun too, with GREATER graphics

And which game gets my vote for the most fun on the Atari 2600?

Thats right, Atari's Adventure. The game has 3 difficulty levels. After you play the first couple, you won't be playing them at all: they're simply not challenging

But put it on the 3rd difficulty level, and - oo boy! - you're gonna be playing this for hours

You can set the switch to A or B depending on whether you want the bird in the game, stealing your hard won items

Theres a maze, a bridge you can use to get into hard to access corridors (in the castles)

The graphics are, quite simply, appalling, but this sure gives me a lot more pleasure than playing Pitfall! on the Atari. Noone could ever solve that game anyway

The games not too difficult to solve, but look out for the 3 dragons (the red one is gonna chase you EVERYWHERE and hes FAST!!)

Did I mention theres a secret room with a dot in the black castle maze only accessible with a bridge - you can use that dot to access the programmers signature in the game itself - an easter egg (and a very early one in video games as well, if not the first on the Atari)

(Spaced Invaders had tricks you could use but was fiendishly difficult: you had to have one of the kind of ships left on the screen on the far left of the screen I believe)

So is this game fun? Hell yeah! the graphics are terrible, but this game can easily suck you in and you can spend a long time playing it again and again and again. Probably the worst graphics for any game on the Atari (yes I've played Air Sea Battle!) - but god its addictive. And Christ its fun

VERY highly recommended