1001 Games To Play Before You Die: #0007 Adventure

Monday, June 9, 2014

#0007 Adventure

Okay! So from here until Rogue, the following will all be taken from where I originally started posting these on the starmen.net forums. People started asking me to document my progress as I continued this challenge, thus, I started posting short reviews in the “How are you” topic. Eventually the reveiws became longer and longer until I started feeling weird posting them in the topic, and that's when this blog was born, I went back and made reviews for the games I had played, but hadn't yet posted. And from now on, all my reviews will be right here in this blog. With that said what time is it?

Adventure time!

Yep, that’s right, today I played “Adventure” for the Atari 2600. A precursor to pretty much all fantasy or adventure games. You play as a dot, and your goal is to get the “chalice” back to it’s home in the gold castle. To do so, you must navigate mazes, crawl through dark chasms, slay those stupid ducks, find keys to unlock the castles and most frustrating of all, avoid the godamn BAT! That dick will fly around and grab any item it sees and then fly it around the entire map laughing at you attempt to chase it around to get your stupid key back that you worked so hard for!

The game it’s self is surprisingly enjoyable, for something so primitive, they really really added quite a bit. For example, one of the mazes is dark, so you can only see a few feet in all directions, something that video games still use today when you’re exploring dark caves. The map it’s self is surprisingly expansive for something that’s only four kilobytes in size. (For comparison, Just Google’s logo is 8kb). Honestly, if you’re in the mood, I suggest checking it out. Just don’t expect too much and you’ll probably enjoy yourself. Or at the very least throw your joystick at the TV because that STUPID BAT STOLE THE CHALICE THAT YOU FINALLY MANAGED TO LOCATE!

Up next: Astroids!

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Why I'm taking this challenge

So! I’ve spent nearly my entire life as a Nintendo Fanboy. A rabid fanboy to the point where when my family got a brand new Playstation 2 back in ‘02 (One of the best consoles ever). I refused to play it. I refused to have anything to do with the company that stole my beloved Nintendo’s thunder! This fanboyism ran rampant in my gaming life through high school and even when I moved out to live with the woman who would one day become my wife. I still didn’t play anything but Nintendo consoles. In fact, it wasn’t until we were gifted an Xbox 360 did I FINALLY play a game on a different console. That was Bioshock, it was also the first shooter I had ever played.It became one of my favorite games of all time. The rest is history, I’ve been playing games on any console I want now.

That’s all well and good, but this means that there is an entire other gaming WORLD that I’ve never played. Never experienced in my life. I love shooters, but with the exception of the half-life series, and System shock 2, every shooter from Doom all the way up until Bioshock, I’ve never played. Not Quake, not CoD, not battlefield.

So, since I’ve missed out on nearly 30 years of gaming, I decided to take a challenge. My lovely wife got me a book called 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die I am going to play through every game in this book. Starting with Oregon Trail (1971) and finish with Bioshock Infinite (2013) I plan to do at least one generation per year. At least. And to help me keep track of what I've done, I started doing small reviews of every game.

At first I wrote these in the starment.net forums, but eventually they became too lengthy to only be posted there, so I created this blog to not only help keep me organized, but so others can follow along as well. It won't be easy, but I think it's worth it to play games that I may otherwise never have played.