Adventure Games Archives

Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive® is the official board game of Brandon Sanderson’s best-selling epic fantasy series, The Stormlight Archive®. This epic storytelling game takes players to Roshar, a world torn by storms and war, where only the Knights Radiant can face the wrath of Odium! Using the Call to Adventure game system, it challenges you to create original heroes, face challenges, and build the character with the highest destiny score.  Face a Thunderclast, journey to the Cognitive Realm, or wield Shardplate; anything is possible when you answer the Call to Adventure!

The Stormlight Archive® is a fully standalone game that contains everything needed for up to 4 players: over 150 cards, 24 acrylic runes, 60 experience tokens, 4 player boards, and a full-color rulebook. The game will hit retail on July 1, and will be available at hobby retailers across the United States. English-language editions will roll out internationally in Fall 2020, with localized versions planned for other regions in 2021.

You can download the full rulebook here. This PDF corrects one typo in the printed version (the glossary entry for “Hero card”). If you have any other rules questions, contact us!

Introduction

The Archive’s mission is to preserve the history and practice of interactive fiction and make it freely available to the public. Since 1992, the Archive has collected thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics. It also preserves the history of IF institutions such as the IF Competition and IFDB. This cultural memory is one of the foundations of the IF community.

Mirrors of the Archive, including ftp and gopher access points, are listed here. (We do not guarantee these mirrors are up to date, however.)

As of mid-2017, the Archive is managed by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. It is funded by the donations of IF supporters like you.

(Speaking of donations, November 2017 was the Archive's 25th anniversary! You can buy Archive swag at the IFTF Gift Shop.)

The Archive was founded by Volker Blasius. Its organization and the indexing of its contents is largely the work of David Kinder, Doug Orleans, and Andrew Plotkin.

Read more about the Archive and the volunteers who maintain it.

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If you loved playing MS-DOS games in the '90s like 3D Bomber, Zool and Alien Rampage, you can now replay those, and many more, with the latest update from Internet Archive. 

On Sunday, Internet Archive released 2,500 MS-DOS games that includes action, strategy and adventure titles. Some of the games are Vor Terra, Spooky Kooky Monster Maker, Princess Maker 2 and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.

"This will be our biggest update yet, ranging from tiny recent independent productions to long-forgotten big-name releases from decades ago," Internet Archive software curator Jason Scott wrote on the site's blog.  

One game that might trigger a few memories is the 1992 action-adventure horror game Alone in the Dark, published by Infogrames. In the game, you can play private investigator Edward Carnby or family member Emily Hartwood, who are investigating the suspicious death of Jeremy Hartwood in his Louisiana mansion called Derceto, which is now supposedly haunted. 

Fighting against rats, zombies and giant worms, you have to solve a number of puzzles to escape.

Another retro game included by Internet Archive is a 1994 title played on PCs and Amiga computers called Mr. Blobby (a remake of the SNES game Super Troll Islands). The unusual game, published by Millennium Interactive, is based on the BBC's TV show character Mr. Blobby from the British TV show Noel's House Party. 

Players can choose from three different characters -- Mr. Blobby, Mrs. Blobby and Baby Blobby. The goal of the game is to color in the computer screen by walking over it. Levels include climbing ladders, avoiding spikes and bouncing on springs.

The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library that archives digital versions of computer games, books, audio recordings and videos. For gamers looking for more vintage games, Internet Archive has been preserving and adding games from the '80s and '90s on a regular basis. Last year, the site added more than 200 retro LCD and LED games including Karnov and Battletoads.