Pirate Adventure

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This article is about the game also known as Adventure on TI-99/4A. For the text adventure also known as Adventure, see Colossal Cave Adventure. For the Atari 2600 game, see Adventure. For the Intellivision game also known as adventure, see Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain. For the genre, see adventure game.

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Pirate Adventure
Developer Adventure International
Adventure International UK (UK)
Publisher Adventure International
Adventure International UK (UK)
Platforms Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore PET, Dragon 32/64, TI-99/4A, TRS-80, VIC-20, Windows, ZX Spectrum
Released Apple II, TRS-80
United States: 1978
Commodore PET
United States: 1979
Atari 8-bit, TI-99/4A
United States: 1981
BBC Micro, Dragon 32/64, Electron, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum
United Kingdom: 1984
Commodore 64
United States: 1985
Windows
Worldwide: November 24, 1997
Added to
Museum
ScottFree (from IF Archive): April 23, 2011
TI-99/4A: February 3, 2020

Pirate Adventure, known as Adventure in the TI-99/4A release and as Pirate's Cove in the VIC-20 release, was a video game released in 1978 by Adventure International. It was the second adventure game developed by Scott Adams.

It was a text adventure that was released both in a text-only form and with static graphics as SAGA #2. SAGA stands for Scott Adams Graphic Adventure.

Plot

A treasure hunter travels to an island to find the pirate's treasure.

Versions

It was created with the Scott Adams interpreter. It was re-released for free download as donationware for Windows on November 24, 1997.