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- ADVENTIONS
- Catalog of Releases
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- Remember the good old days, when adventure games challenged you with
- great puzzles and evocative descriptions without resorting to any
- graphics at all? We at ADVENTIONS really miss that emphasis on
- gameplay rather than glitz, and we're committed to writing new games
- that are even better than the early text games we liked so much.
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- We believe the best pictures are the ones you create in your own
- mind. And we know you'll be creating some pretty amazing pictures
- when you play our games.
-
- And because our games' graphics and sound capabilities are determined by
- *your* hardware rather than your machine's hardware, our adventures will
- run on more machines than almost any other commercial games.
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- Special Internet Note
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- More and more people are getting on the Internet every day. If you're using
- a major online system, you can probably get access to the Internet, and it's
- well worth it if you're a text game enthusiast -- the Internet has an
- active text game community.
-
- If you have access to the Internet, you can get all our games, including
- demo versions of our commercial products, from the FTP site "ftp.gmd.de" in
- Bonn, Germany. Once there, look in if-archive/games/adventions. Be sure
- to transfer files in binary mode by typing "binary" at the FTP prompt.
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- If you have access to Internet newsgroups, you can read discussions about
- text games in the groups rec.games.int-fiction and rec.arts.int-fiction.
- If you want a hint, post to the games group instead of the arts group --
- the arts group is for discussions about *making* text games, not playing
- them. Hope to see you there!
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- New Release!
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- A new chapter in the history of Unnkulia and the Valley unfolds in this
- exciting series. Find out what life is like on planet Tode (home to
- Unnkulia and the Valley) and the rest of the Unnkulian Universe 500 years
- after "Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure."
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- Written by a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Artificial Intelligence
- Laboratory, "The Legend Lives!" is a science fiction epic of unprecedented
- depth that explores what can happen when networks and software get too
- powerful to control. As hacker Gavin Kelly, you'll be at your wits' end
- tracking down and battling a terrifyingly powerful virus unleashed on
- AkNet, the known galaxy's information and service backbone. All the while,
- you'll have to thwart its' attempts to locate and terminate *you*.
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- While sticking to the often humorous style of the Unnkulian Unventures,
- "The Legend Lives!" nevertheless explores many serious themes about
- technology and its effects on society. "Legend" is not just a challenging
- and fun computer game; it is one computer science researcher's view of a
- future nearly destroyed by an entirely synthetic and substanceless entity
- -- a software construct.
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- The Legend Lives!
- by David Baggett
- Freeware
- Available Now
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- The Horror of Rylvania
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- "The Horror of Rylvania" is true gothic horror in an interactive
- fiction setting. A radical departure from the light-hearted Unnkulian
- series, "Horror" is not for the faint-at-heart.
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- What you expected would be a fun outing in scenic Rylvania turns
- into a gruesome nightmare, with *you* playing the starring role. Find
- out what it's like to be alternately the source and challenger of evil
- in the tiny Eastern European province. Test your very moral fiber as
- you decide to damn yourself and save others -- or vice versa. "The
- Horror of Rylvania" will grip you like no interactive fiction ever
- has before.
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- The Horror of Rylvania
- by D. A. Leary
- Free playable demo available
- $20 (Direct from ADVENTIONS, or through High Energy Software)
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- Unnkulian Unventure Series
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- The Unnkulian Unventures are known world-wide for their excellent
- prose, witty irreverence, and top-notch full sentence command interface.
- Adventure game devotees raised on now-classic 80's interactive fiction
- praise these games for bringing challenging puzzles, vivid characters,
- and evocative writing back to the gaming world.
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- In "Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure" you play the part of
- Kuulest's slave, and must recover the Orb of Studosity from the evil
- Unnkulians. Kuulest, the old geezebag, has died and left you with
- nothing to go on but a cryptic message about saving the planet.
- You'll encounter amazing Acme products, the infamous Guardian, those
- witty creatures known as Drolls, a giant beaver, and even the Dread
- Unnkulian Warrior. <Gasp!>
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- In "Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme" your adventure
- continues as you try to create some good press for yourself --
- wouldn't want to fade into anonymous obscurity, now would you? Along
- the way, you'll find the answers to these compelling questions, and
- more:
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- o What happened to the Unnkulians?
- o Why are Acme products so bad?
- o What is this cheez stuff, really?
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- Plus, you'll get to explore Dawg Rock, a Duhdist Retreat, Acme's
- clandestine prototypes laboratory, and even pay a visit to Acme HQ.
-
- In "Unnkulia One-Half: The Salesman Triumphant," you'll play the role
- of a down-and-out Acme salesman, forced to work out of the Golden
- Dragon Inn, dangerously near Dread Unnkulia. Will you accumulate
- enough loot in this frightful backwater berg to turn your fortunes in
- your favor?
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- And in "Unnkulia Zero: The Search for Amanda," will you, the Valley
- King's most trusted warrior, rescue his Lady Amanda from the gruesome
- clutches of the evil Unnkulians?
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- Along the way to victory (or, <shudder>, defeat!), you will:
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- o Find out about the ancient days of the Valley,
- o Meet the King's faithful (but not so bright) Valley Patrol,
- o Explore *beautiful* Lake Draounheer,
- o Discover the ancient burial ground of your ancestors,
- o Become frustrated with the pesky Stoll and his Stoll Bridge,
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- and, of course,
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- o Meet that wondrously wacky Wowsa Willy!
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- Further adventures in the ongoing Unnkulian saga are in the works,
- and with every new game you learn more about this mystifying (and
- hilarious) land and its inhabitants -- benign and malevolent.
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- Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure (v3.0)
- by D. A. Leary
- $10 (Shareware)
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- Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme (v3.0)
- by David Baggett
- $10 (Shareware)
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- Unnkulia 1/2: The Salesman Triumphant (v1.0)
- by D. A. Leary
- Freeware
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- Unnkulia Zero: The Search for Amanda (v1.0)
- by D. A. Leary
- Free playable demo available
- $25 (Direct from ADVENTIONS, or through High Energy Software)
-
- Unnkulian Unventure IV
- (Work in progress)
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- Other Adventures
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- "Colossal Cave Revisited" is a remake of the first major adventure
- game ever written: Colossal Cave, otherwise known as "Adventure."
- The original Adventure was written in FORTRAN by Willie Crowther and
- Don Woods, and had only a simple two word command parser. Its
- descriptions were so vivid, however, that it captivated a generation
- of computer enthusiasts and quickly became part of the "hacker lore."
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- ADVENTIONS' implementation of this classic features the same
- excellent full sentence parser our other games use, and comes with
- complete source code. For those new to interactive fiction, "Colossal
- Cave Revisited" is a must-have.
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-
- Colossal Cave Revisited
- by Willie Crowther and Don Woods
- TADS version written by David Baggett
- Freeware
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- Contacting ADVENTIONS
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- HOW TO CONTACT ADVENTIONS
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- Paper mail
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- ADVENTIONS
- PO Box 851
- Columbia, MD 21044 USA
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- Email
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- Compuserve: 76440,2671
- Internet: dmb@ai.mit.edu
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- If you send paper mail about a specific game, please write the name
- of the game on the envelope to help us process your query faster.
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- Ordering Information
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- ADVENTIONS ORDER FORM
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- Return this order form and payment to
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- ADVENTIONS
- PO Box 851
- Columbia, MD 21044 USA
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- or order by credit card from High Energy Software by calling
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- (415) 493-2430
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- during business hours. VISA and Mastercard accepted.
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- Unnkulia Zero The Horror of Rylvania
- System $25 $20
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- MS-DOS 5 1/4" 1.2M [ ] [ ]
- MS-DOS 3 1/2" 720K [ ] [ ]
- Macintosh 800K [ ] [ ]
- Unix* [ ] [ ]
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- Maryland residents add $1.25
- sales tax per copy _______
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- Overseas customers add $1.00
- shipping per copy _______
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- Total >_______
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- * Please contact us for a list of supported Unix systems.
- Unix versions come on 1.4M 3 1/2" MS-DOS format disks.
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