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Adventure on the Atari 2600. This is the first video game that I can remember playing as a kid. I played this over at my cousin's house for hours on end.

#1: Gator (Gator) on Sep 25, 2009 [HINT]

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Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

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I see lots of neat symbols. Don't know the game.

I remember this. But there is nothing like the pixel baseball game known as "Home Run" or the bowling or the stickman "Basketball" from the good old system.

Holy crap, I've been trying to remember the name of this game for YEARS! Thanks so much!

Hmmm...my first computer game? Pong.

Boy, would that ever make a crappy paint-by-number puzzle.

I can't make head or tail of this picture though.

Here is the wiki page on the game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(Atari_2600)

Top left is a key, the "block" represented your character, the "arrow" was the sword, the "cup" was the chalice, and the thing on the right was a dragon.

Lol Jan. Pong was the first computer game I can remember too. I never did like it all that much but it WAS mezmerizing.

As a kid I played Hollywood Star for hours on end at my friend Regina Hudgel's house...far cry from video games. Of course we also played Monopoly, Life, Rack-O, Parchisi, Chinese Checkers, Clue and all sorts of card games. Does anyone remember "Authors"?

That is awesome. As I was solving this, I started with the thing on the right and thought to myself, that looks like the dragon from Adventure. I just kept smiling as the rest of the items came into focus.

I think that a series is in the works. Bring all the 2600 characters to WBN in all their 4- and 8-bit glory!

No matter what else is said, "Zeth" has got to be the coolest name ever!

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I don't know this game either. My first video game was brick. I think that's the name. Anyone remember that one?

Excellent solve and acurate images... nice job Gator!

This was an excellent game. Can you believe I was terrified of that goofy little dragon?

Kristen - I was too :)

This reminds me of my own childhood, dungeon-based time-suck. It was called Gateway to Apshai on the Coleco. The first game I actually remember playing was Star Trek on a TI 99/4A. And, because it was the biggest time-suck of all my elementary-school-age games, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Masquerade on the Apple II.

Our first computer was a TI99/4A! The first game I remember playing was Camel. It was a text adventure game, and you had to cross the desert to reach the oasis before you died. We also had a couple of plug-in cartridge games. One was Math Magic or somesuch.

Can't say that I'm surprised given your and my lack of a generational gap ;)
Camel sounds a bit like a Oregon Trail..."would you like to stop and eat a cactus or crawl on by?"

I don't know why I didn't comment on this when I solved it eight years ago.

This was my favorite 2600 game. When I got my own 2600 console (at a garage sale after I had a kid of my own) I got pretty good at it and my criteria for winning was to finish it on expert mode, but with ALL the items in the yellow castle including yourself and the bat. Dragons, too. Alive.


This involved making the bat grab the dragons and then taking the bat into the yellow castle and releasing it in such a way that it drops the dragon and picks up another item you've already dropped in there. Then scooting before the dragon gets you.

Do that two more times and all the dragons are in there. (You have to be careful carrying a bat carrying a dragon as the dragon can still eat you if you aren't careful when you move.)

Then at the end make sure you grab the bat from the top while it's holding the chalice from the top and then you can get into the yellow castle before the chalice hits the gate. That way you can see all your treasures as the 2600 blinks furiously because of all the sprites on the screen.

Adventure features heavily in the book _Ready Player One_. :)

I never played Adventure on the Atari but enjoyed it on an emulator years later. Amazing what got done with so little memory.

I love how it has an Easter Egg in it too.

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