Many, many years ago, before the Semi-Colossal Caverns of Nirdarf were the subject of whispered terror, a townsman found a scrap of paper wrapped up in an oak leaf, down in Least Valley. That’s a few miles north of here, and that’s where the last explorers were finally found … absolutely mad.
Some people say there are vast treasures to be found in the caves. Other people say that there isn't anything in the caves but trouble! According to rumour, others before you have tried to find the hidden caves of Nirdarf - and some of them have been never been heard of again! Are you sure you want to do this?
A tiny version of Adventure/Colossal Caves designed to fit in the standard 1K memory of the KIM-1 and playable on its six built-in 7-segment display LED panels!
It featured 24 locations, five objects to be used, two animals (a bird and a dragon), a magic word, and two treasures to retrieve.
You can see the game in action in this YouTube video and Jason Dyer has written about the adventure on his blog. The 32-page manual is available on archive.org. Magazine articles from the time say it initially retailed at $24.95!
There is a full review of the game in issue 29 of the Micro 6502 Journal. The review mentions that the game came with a separate scoring program which would analyse how you performed in the adventure and allow you to compare your score with friends.
Sold commercially by ARESCO and also directly by the author himself.
The game was later officially adapted by Matt Ganis for the SYN-1 under the title SYM-VENTURE (this port was without the author's knowledge, but seemingly licensed by ARESCO).
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