Adventure Games

are video games in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving. The genre”s focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multi-player design difficult. Colossal Cave Adventure is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include Zork, King”s Quest, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Myst.