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Adventure International was a video game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system. The adventure game concept originally came from Colossal Cave Adventure which ran strictly on large mainframe systems at the time.

After the success of their first game Adventureland, games followed rapidly, with Adventure International (or "AI") releasing about two games a year. Initially the games were drawn from the founders imagination, with themes ranging from fantasy to horror and sometimes science fiction. Some of the later games were written by Scott Adams and other collaborators. Adventure Internationals' games became known for quality, with a reputation only exceeded in the field at the time by Infocom.

Fourteen games later, Adventure International began to release games drawn from film and fiction. The extremely rare Buckaroo Banzai game, developed with Phillip Case, was based on the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984). Other games came from a more well known source: Marvel Comics. Adventure International released three Questprobe games based on the Marvel characters: "The Incredible Hulk", "Spider-Man" and "Torch and the Thing".

By the end of 1982, game tastes were changing. The traditional text-based adventure game market had moved to graphical based adventures. Games like The Hobbit had increased expectations of such games, and although Adventure International games included graphics of a sort, they were significantly inferior to contemporary offerings at the time and the company was rapidly losing market share. At its peak in late 1983 to early 1984 Adventure International employed approximately 50 individuals, and published titles from over 300 independent programmer/authors.

Adventure International went bankrupt in 1985. The copyrights for its games reverted to the bank and eventually back to Scott Adams who released them as shareware.

In Europe the "Adventure International" name was a trading name of Adventure Soft and other games were released under the name that were not from Adventure International in the USA.

Scott Adams's original twelve adventure games were:

• Adventureland: Explore a fantasy landscape and collect thirteen treasures.
• Pirate Adventure (also called Pirate's Cove): Hunt for lost pirate treasure.
• Secret Mission (originally called Mission Impossible): Prevent terrorists from destroying a nuclear reactor.
• Voodoo Castle: Free a count from a voodoo curse.
• The Count: Kill Count Dracula.
• Strange Odyssey: Explore strange planets and collect treasure.
• Mystery Fun House: Capture secret plans hidden in a fun house.
• Pyramid of Doom: Plunder an Egyptian pyramid.
• Ghost Town: Search a Western ghost town for treasure.
• Savage Island parts I & II: The most challenging adventure games, you are not even aware of the adventure's goal. If you complete part one, you are given the password to play the second part.
• The Golden Voyage: Sail the world and find the fountain of youth.

The games were written using an in-house adventure creator with text compression and a sophisticated command interpreter running on a BBC Micro and a graphics tool running on an Apricot F1. The two parts were then merged, using a cross-compiler when necessary.

A later Adventure International title, Saigon: The Final Days, had as its very dark scenario the escape of a soldier from Vietnam at the end of the war. At one point in the game, the player must figure out how to cross a predator-infested river; it turned out that the command "confess to war crimes" would seemingly be interpreted as a valid request rather than rejected as gibberish, killing the player. Rather than an intentional feature, this was due to a quirk of the input parser, which would see the word "swim" embedded in the text ("confess to war crimes"), a fatal move.

The actual ending to the game was no less macabre, involving the player zipping him or herself into a body bag to be carried out of the country by an evacuation helicopter.

• Category at Open Directory
• Scott Adams offical website
• Adventure International at World of Spectrum