Virtual Adventure

My friend Dave showed me this great site where you can play Adventure in a web browser. The site uses flash for the game, and it seems to be a pretty faithful recreation except that it runs at warp speed. In this game, you, a square dot must find the chalice while avoiding the dragons, depicted as ducks. There are tools and treasures to be found, including something like a bridge that you can carry along with you. Defying physics and challenging the imagination with its 4k of code, I give this game 3 pixelated bats. Now get this fricken duck away from me!

The game is available here.

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In this blog, I want to write about my experiences collecting and using classic computers and console games. It comes at a sad time for me, as I am moving and will soon have to part with some of my collection to make room for furniture. However, I hope that reviewing the games and systems here will help me to decide what to keep and what to get rid of. I am also interested in emulation and will probably talk a little about that as well, plus whatever else comes to mind.

As soon as I inventory my collection, I'll post details. I have mainly Commodore and Atari systems, with a few other interesting things thrown in. They were the systems I had when I was a kid and still like to use today.

I think I am going to hook up my Astrocade today and see what the games are like. I'll write about them here if I get to it.