Adventure released for the iPhone

holy cow ... weird memories indeed. i remember the game, but can't wait to play it on iphone so i can remember all the "stuff" that goes with it. definitely a blast from the past!

I'm still waiting for Q-Bert.

Also, I'd love it if someone can port the Amusement Park games for the Palm OS (AP1, AP2, and AP3, which I believe were released between 1999-2003) to the iPhone. These were games that were precursors to today's brain challenge games and rock. CakeSoftware.com used to maintain them, but the site went dead and the main contact, "David," is not reachable.

The new voice-activated Google Mobile app for the iPhone is finally released
http://snsays.com/2004/googles-voice-search/

'Nuff said! Downloading, ahem, I mean "purchasing" now...

The one thing I remember about it is the rabbit that attacks you - just like in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Oh, my inner 4-year-old just let out a shriek of joy. *goes to download it*

The easter egg is in there.

Actually, while Crowther's Colossal Cave Adventure inspired Robinett's Atari version, the Atari version is pretty contemporaneous with Mystery Mansion and others. Robinett designed and started coding the game in early '78. Atari's Superman cartridge used Robinett's code but was actually released first.

(And geez, Tony, I said right there in comment 3 that it contains the easter egg. Geez.)

I think he meant to say it pioneered 4-way smooth scrolling graphical action adventure games, but got lazy and shortened the sentence. ;-)

What Adventure did pioneer, though, was Easter Eggs. Adventure contains the first known Easter Egg (not sure if the iPhone remake contains the Egg or not...) And it was a brilliant Easter Egg, too...I will forever remember the name of the programmer who wrote Adventure thanks to his Easter Egg.

This is really, really good. It isn't emulated -- there are times when this does not act the same as the original -- but without an iPhone version of Stella and the ROM file, it's as good as it gets. It's so faithful that I was surprised by the one or two deviations from the original. (At least one of these is a bug -- the bat can freeze while switching objects.) And the tilt controls work fine; I don't think touch controls will work as well, but maybe folks who are playing this during meetings will be able to be more discreet or something.

The easter egg is there. And although, as I say, the bat does very occasionally freeze while randomly switching objects, there's a way for the player to freeze it deliberately, but I haven't been able to find out whether that's in this version.