
The Atari 2600's Adventure holds several special places in gaming history. It was the first game to allow the main character to carry and use objects without entering a menu or command, it infamously featured gaming's very first easter egg, and, as the title implies, it was the first ever action-adventure game for a video game console, paving the way for The Legend of Zelda and countless others.
Well now the first ever action-adventure video game is available for the iPhone/iPod Touch. And its free. Go experience some video game history right now.
The game is tilt-controlled and you touch the screen to drop whatever item you're carrying. Gameplay is smooth and the flat pixel graphics are perfectly crisp. It's hi-def lo-fi portable retro gaming. You can even adjust the dragons' behavior and turn on and off a rumble function in the application's settings. My favorite feature, though, is that gameplay does not disrupt your iPod's audio playback, so you can create your own soundtrack to the classic game (and we all know how much I love doing that).
Of course, my test session with Adventure was backed by Adventure's 2008 album Adventure...and it was divine. Try it, I implore you.
Illustration taken from my friend Dave Roman's hilarious comic strip interpretation of Adventure. Read the whole thing here.
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