The term "adventure game" originated from the 1970s text computer game Colossal Cave Adventure, often referred … See more

Adventure games contain a variety of puzzles, including decoding messages, finding and using items, opening locked doors, or finding and exploring new locations. Solving a puzzle will unlock access to n… See more

Text adventures convey the game's story through passages of text, revealed to the player in response to typed instructions. Early text adventures, Colossal Cave Adventure or Scott Adams' games, used a simple … See more

The origins of text adventure games are difficult to trace as records of computing around the 1970s were not as well documented. Text-based games had existed prior to 1976 that featured elements of explorin… See more

Due to differences in computer hardware, language, and culture, development of adventure games took a different course in Japan compared to Western markets. The most popular adventure game subgenres in Japan are … See more

Most text adventure games are readily accessible on modern computers due to the use of a small number of standard virtual machines (such as the Z engine) used to drive these games at their original release which hav… See more

• Adventure Gamers, website dedicated to the adventure game genre
• Cybertext
• Get Lamp, a documentary on interactive fiction
• List of graphic adventure games… See more