{{Redirect|Pirate Cove (video game)|the 2003 video game|Tropico 2: Pirate Cove|other uses|Pirate Cove (disambiguation){{!}}Pirate Cove}} {{about|the 1979 video game|the type of narrative|Pirates in the arts and popular culture|the theme park in Ireland|Pirate Adventure Park}} {{Lead too short |date=May 2024}} {{Infobox video game |title= Pirate Adventure |image= Pirate Adventure Coverart.png |caption= |developer= |publisher= Creative Computing Software<br />Adventure International |designer= Scott Adams |series= ''Adventure'' |engine= |modes= |platforms= TRS-80, VIC-20, TI-99/4A, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, PET, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Dragon 32/64 |released= 1979 |genre= Text adventure }}
'''''Pirate Adventure ''''' (also known as '''''Pirate Cove''''') is a text adventure video game written by Scott Adams. It was published by Adams' company, Adventure International, in 1979.
==Description== thumb|A map of ''Pirate Adventure'' world by Aaron A. Reed from ''50 Years of Text Games'' project Published by Adventure International and the second game of the series, after ''Adventureland'', this text-based adventure game was one of many adventure games created by Scott Adams,<ref name="Dragon42">{{cite journal |title=The Electric Eye |author=Herro, Mark |journal=The Dragon |issue=42 |date=October 1980 |pages=42–43}}</ref> in this case based on his wife Alexis's ideas.{{r|adams198012}} The setting was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel ''Treasure Island'' and involved a quest to retrieve Long John Silver's lost treasures.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Adventure_International/Classic.html | title=Scott Adams Classic Adventures }}</ref>
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. "Climb Tree".
The player starts the game in a London flat, and progresses via a bit of magic to Pirates Island. Here, the player has to build a ship to reach Treasure Island and there find two pieces of treasure. The player also has to contend with an unpredictable pirate ally; it was the first text adventure game of the Adams series in which the player shared the adventure with a second character.
The magic phrase to reach the island in this game, 'Say Yoho', was the name of a long-running column in ''SoftSide'' magazine by Scott Adams.
==Source code== The BASIC source code for ''Pirate Adventure'' was printed in the December 1980 issue of ''BYTE'', with an addendum in April 1981.<ref name="adams198012">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-12/1980_12_BYTE_05-12_Adventure#page/n193/mode/2up | title=Pirate's Adventure | work=BYTE | date=December 1980 | access-date=18 October 2013 | author=Adams, Scott | pages=192}}</ref><ref name="byte198104">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-04/1981_04_BYTE_06-04_Future_Computers#page/n301/mode/2up | title=Adventurous Bugs | work=BYTE | date=April 1981 | access-date=18 October 2013 | pages=302}}</ref> This enabled others to discover how the engine worked and to create their own adventures using this or a similar design.
==Reception== ''Pirate Adventure'' was reviewed in issue #42 of ''The Dragon'' magazine. The reviewer, Mark Herro, commented on the difficulty of the game: "Supposedly one of the "easier" programs of the series, I'm embarrassed to say that I have yet to find a treasure in ''Pirate Adventure''... This Program has been sending me in circles for weeks."<ref name="Dragon42"/>
Bruce Campbell reviewed ''Pirate's Cove'' in ''The Space Gamer'' No. 36.<ref name="SG">{{cite journal|last=Campbell |first=Bruce |date=February 1981 |title=Capsule Reviews|journal=The Space Gamer|publisher=Steve Jackson Games|issue=36|pages=27–28}}</ref> Campbell commented that "''Pirate's Cove'' is a good first adventure (some of the others are harder), but also entertaining for the experienced adventurer."<ref name="SG"/>
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==External links== *{{WoS game|id=0006803}} *{{MobyGames|id=/pirate-adventure}}
{{Adventure International}} {{Treasure Island}}
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