Speaking of classic Atari 2600 games, the predecessor to Venture, was Adventure, which was loosely based one of the original text-based games Colossal Cave Adventure (often referred to as Adventure). I literally spent days playing this one, which is pretty amazing to think of, considering how basic it seems now. You could get lost in screen after screen of mazes and of course there’s that weird dragon duck creature that keeps following you around. This was the first video game where your character could pick-up, move and drop objects, like the golden chalice or a key to unlock the castle.
Now you can play all the awesomeness that is Adventure via Scott Pehnke’s excellent Flash re-creation of Adventure.
Adventure was the first video game to have an easter egg. Its creator Warren Robinett was frustrated with Atari, who at the time was not giving proper credit to game developers, so he hid his name deep inside the game.
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Who can forget the invisible key!!
Loved this game. Integral component of geek upbringing.
Adventure was neat. I admit to being scared as a little kid of the dragon-ducks. Them and the dragon on Tic-Tac-Dough. I had a dragon-filled childhood.
I love it! When I discovered this easter egg around age 14 it was what made me want to become a computer programmer. I saw this name and suddenly I thought about the game in a different way, as something you could create, not just play. I remember the moment like it was yesterday! I was making (really) simple joystick games for my Commodore 64 soon after. If I remember right, the secret room has something to do with getting the bridge halfway off screen at the far right edge of the starting screen.