To add some validation however, this "fact" has been published by many
soruces, including books, by Sierra itself, and in an article I worte for
C|net (for what that's worth). And nobody has publicly stood up to dispute
it yet.
Hugh
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From: C.E. Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PRO
> (1) The first adventure game with text + graphics was Mystery House.
> All adventure games before Mystery House were purely text.
> http://www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.7f.html
Don't put too much stock in anything in XYZZYnews... I'm the one who wrote
this, back when I was first getting into game coll
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 03:09 PM, John Romero wrote:
[Snip]
(3) Your question "Was King's Quest 1 really the first quasi-3D
adventure game released for the IBM line?" The answer: King's Quest
1 was the first GAME ever released for the new IBM PC back in 1984.
The
release date on
Okay, I thought most people knew the answers to these questions. Here's
what you're looking for.
(1) The first adventure game with text + graphics was Mystery House.
All adventure games before Mystery House were purely text.
http://www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.7f.html
(2) The King's Quest series and
