Strange Odyssey
Encyclopedia
Strange Odyssey was a text-based adventure program written by Scott Adams
and Neil Broome .
, this text-based adventure game was one of many from Scott Adams.
Gameplay involved moving from location to location, picking up any objects found there, and using them somewhere else to unlock puzzles. Commands took the form of verb
and noun
, e.g. "Take Shovel". Movement from location to location was limited to North, South, East, West, Up and Down.
The game begins with the player stranded on a tiny asteroid
in a damaged spaceship. The player must use an alien teleportation
device to travel to distant worlds, collect treasure, and find the materials to repair the spacecraft.
magazine. The reviewer, Mark Herro, comments on some of the difficulties of the game: "My present situation in this game is opposite that of Pirate Adventure. I’ve found treasures but I don’t know where to take them! ... The game starts in the control room of a disabled spaceship. It took me a good half hour just to find my way out of the spaceship! To compound problems, a space suit must be worn when outside the spaceship. When the air is gone, that’s it, my friend."
Scott Adams (game designer)
Scott Adams is the co-founder, with ex-wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers....
and Neil Broome .
Description
Published by Adventure InternationalAdventure International
Adventure International was a computer 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...
, this text-based adventure game was one of many from Scott Adams.
Gameplay involved moving from location to location, picking up any objects found there, and using them somewhere else to unlock puzzles. Commands took the form of verb
Verb
A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word that in syntax conveys an action , or a state of being . In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive...
and noun
Noun
In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition .Lexical categories are defined in terms of how their members combine with other kinds of...
, e.g. "Take Shovel". Movement from location to location was limited to North, South, East, West, Up and Down.
The game begins with the player stranded on a tiny asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
in a damaged spaceship. The player must use an alien teleportation
Teleportation
Teleportation is the fictional or imagined process by which matter is instantaneously transferred from one place to another.Teleportation may also refer to:*Quantum teleportation, a method of transmitting quantum data...
device to travel to distant worlds, collect treasure, and find the materials to repair the spacecraft.
Reception
Strange Odyssey was reviewed in issue #42 of The DragonDragon (magazine)
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
magazine. The reviewer, Mark Herro, comments on some of the difficulties of the game: "My present situation in this game is opposite that of Pirate Adventure. I’ve found treasures but I don’t know where to take them! ... The game starts in the control room of a disabled spaceship. It took me a good half hour just to find my way out of the spaceship! To compound problems, a space suit must be worn when outside the spaceship. When the air is gone, that’s it, my friend."