Explore magical caves deep underground. Watch out for poisonous snakes and fierce animals in your quest to find all the treasure and escape alive.
Darnold originally produced this game for Commodore PET (in 1982 or earlier). In 1983 he ported the game to the C64, compiling the BASIC with the DTL compiler. A brief history of the game can be found in Peter Archer's article Adventure Games: A Personal Journey from TPUG Magazine, June/July 1985; see here.
Tunnelmaze Adventure was distributed through user groups, such as TPUG. Later on it was distributed on public domain disks.
The listing for this game may also be found in the 1983 book series Exploring Adventures on the (name of a computer platform) by Peter Gerrard (there is one book per computer platform). As with the other two Exploring Adventures adventures, the main purpose of this game is to illustrate how to program your own adventure games in BASIC. Anyone who did not want to type in the games could instead buy the three games on a single cassette. Peter Gerrard appears to have used Steven Darnold's PET listings as the basis for the various ports of the game, as he credits Steven Darnold for the original listing in the book. However, the TPUG article linked to above suggests that Darnold was *not* happy with this use of his work.
The Gerrard game is also available in Finnish.
Steven C. Darnold's original version of this game formed part of his Castlemaze / Tunnelmaze / Valleymaze Adventure series.
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