I’m JUST old enough to remember the Atari era quite well, though I never played Dark Cavern. The two games I remember most fondly on the Atari (aside from games like Pac Man and Frogger that were available on other consoles) were “Spiderman” and “Sneak & Peek”. The Spiderman game is pretty self explanatory, you were Spidey and had to scale numerous buildings with your webbing while avoiding bombs being thrown at you by the Hobgobblin. Sneak & Peek was a little more complex. As far as I know, it was the first “interactive” video game ever made. It was basically a video game version of hide and go seek. The player who was doing the hiding would manuever his man through a series of rooms in a house (or you could go outside the house) and find a place to hide. You could hide in closets, under furniture, behind curtains etc. The person playing as the seeker would have to cover their eyes and/or turn their head while the other player found a place to hide. Once your man was hidden, the 2nd player would uncover their eyes and search throughout the house trying to find you within a set time limit. I fondly enjoyed both of these games growing up. I had a chance to play them again with an Atari emulator, and in retrospect they were a lot more primitive than I had remembered. I played each one for about 5 min before I was bored to death. I couldn’t even keep playing it for the nostalgia. Ahhh well. Also, I think it would a neat idea if you could do a write up on the Intellevision console. Do you remember that? I never had one as a kid, and never actually saw one until I came across one at a yard sale in mid 90’s. I bought the system and 7 or 8 games for around 2 dollars. It was so old that it didn’t even have a coaxial cable adapter (or RCA cables). It had a little box with two little forks coming out of it. You had to hook the forks up to two screws on the back of your tv set for the thing to work. It also had the most complex joystick I have ever seen. It had a huge number pad, almost like a telephone, with the digits 0-9 and a # and * keys. And instead of an analog stick it had this large knobbed dial that you would turn left or right to controll certai movements. It was definately different. Another good idea for a write up might be to do a timeline on the history of adventure games. Adventure games are my favorite genre, and there have been plenty of entries in to it over the years. I think it would interesting to see how much progress has been made in the 30 years or so since they’ve been in the mainstream. I did a little looking around online for articles on the topic, and I came across a few that were worthwhile, like this one. I’d be interested in reading your take on the history of the genre, and seeing what approach you take in highlighting certain key games. Hopefully, you’ll decide to do a write up on it when you you have the time. Thanks again for the cool post. Your blog is always a great read. Keep up the good work!

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