Adventure International at the 1982 West Coast Computer Faire. Other games came from Marvel Comics - Adventure International released three Questprobe games based on the Marvel characters The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, The Human Torch and the Thing. The Buckaroo Banzai game was based on the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984). įourteen games later, Adventure International began to release games drawn from film and fiction. 'What are these games? It's all words on the screen! There's no graphics! What kind of a video game doesn't have video?' And they became the best-selling cartridges for the VIC-20, period.' īy 1983 the company was employing 40 people and was based in Longwood, Florida. Developer Neil Harris recalled: 'ur sales guys could not figure out what they were gonna do with them. In 1980, five of the company's games were ported to the VIC-20. Some of the later games were written by Scott Adams with other collaborators. Initially the games were drawn from the founders' imaginations, with themes ranging from fantasy to horror and sometimes science fiction. The adventure game concept originally came from Colossal Cave Adventure which ran strictly on large mainframe systems at the time.Īfter the success of Adams' first text adventure, Adventureland, other games followed rapidly, with Adventure International (or 'AI') releasing about two games a year.

Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system. It was started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Adventure International was an American video game publishing company that existed from 1979 until 1986.

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