Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I


Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I Intro screen #1 Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I Intro screen #2
Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I Intro screens 1 & 2

Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I Intro screen #3 (lowercase version) Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I Intro screen #4 (lowercase version)
Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I Intro screens 3 & 4 (lowercase versions)

Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I game screen #1 Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I game screen #2 (lowercase version
Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I game screens 1 & 2 (regular & lowercase versions)

Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I is one of the text adventure games that were originally written by Scott Adams for the TRS-80 Model 1, using a two word VERB NOUN text parser (it had to fit in 16K RAM originally). This one was originally released in 1979, and ported to the Coco by June 1983 by . Later a patched version came out to support the Coco 2B (with the T1 derivative of the VDG (Video Display Generator) chip, which featured true lowercase letters. This also works with the Coco 3. The game also supports saving and restoring a game in progress.

Savage Island Part I was rated by the company as an Advanced skill adventure game. This is the first adventure game that was a multi-parter (as indicated by the "Part I"), allowing a much bigger game to be played on the small amount of RAM in computers at the time. In Part 1, the player is on a small island that holds an "awesome secret" that the player has to discover. Rather unique for the time is that the player is given a special password upon completion of Part I. The player uses this password to start playing Part II; without it one can not play Part II. The game also features a dedication at the beginning to Dennis Brent.

NOTE: By August of 1983, Adventure International was offering Tri-Pack adventures for both the Coco and the Atari 8 bits; these offered 3 adventures for 1 lower price. The packs were Adventures 1-3, Adventures 4-6, Adventures 7-9 and Adventures 10-12.

Title: Adventure #10: Savage Island Part I

Author: Scott Adams (original game), Roger Schrag (Coco port)

Publisher: Adventure International

Released: June 1983

Requires: Color Computer 1,2 or 3, 16K RAM. (Coco 2B (T1 VDG chip) or Coco 3 required for lowercase version)

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