My gaming history began with the Atari 2600. I was probably about 6 when we got one and I had probably a dozen or so games. Some of them were good, some were terrible and then there was this one, Adventure!
Let me take one second to mention how much I LOVE the old Atari box art. There is something incredibly cool about it that I can't put my finger on... I'll try to figure it out before I exhaust my Atari playthroughs.
There are 3 difficulty levels to this game, level 1 is the easiest version with only 2 dragons, 2 castles and everything is easy to find. Level 2 gives the full game with all three dragons, all three castles, invisible labyrinths and the Bat. You could probably call level 2 the "official, complete game". Level 3 takes things a bit further and gives you the complete game, but randomizes the location of all the objects. I'm not sure if that means that there's a possibility of impossible combinations, i.e. the white key inside the white castle, etc.). But it adds a ton of replayability to the game.
I decided that "officially completing" this game would entail beating the game once each on levels 1 and 2 and 5 times on level 3.
I have to say, level 1 was a breeze, but level 2 was harder than I thought it would be. The stupid Bat kept switching things around on me. One time he stole my sword, leaving me a live dragon and another time he stole my bridge leaving me trapped in a wall. There was, of course, a lot of getting eaten by dragons.
Overall, I loved playing this game again. It didn't take long to get the hang of it, but the randomness of the hardest difficulty made it a lot of fun. There were several times that I was being chased around the screens by two or three dragons and I was desperately looking for the sword. So much fun!
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