This batch of Apple II adventures ranges from terse parser quests to city-spanning investigations, with a few unusual attempts to push the format beyond plain text.

221 B Baker St.

In Sherlock Holmes board-game mystery, players move around a London board, collect clues, and return to Baker Street for a final quiz. The thirty-case setup and the Scotland Yard badge rule make this one a natural fit for a competitive evening; which case would your regular table tackle first?

Accolade’s Comics featuring Steve Keene Thrillseeker

Steve Keene comic adventure sends its secret agent toward either a missing-professor case in Vienna or the decidedly stranger problem of multiplying fire hydrants. The comic-panel format, choice prompts, and occasional action scenes make the two routes worth putting side by side.

Adventure Master

With text-adventure construction kit, the attraction is building rooms, objects, and descriptions around a two-word command system. Its three included scenarios include the finished Clever Catacombs and two less complete examples, inviting a comparison of what each one leaves for the player-author to supply.

Adventure Series

Scott Adams adventure anthology gathers twelve all-text Scott Adams adventures, from Adventureland and Pirate Adventure to Voodoo Castle and Strange Odyssey. The range of treasure hunts, horror, espionage, islands, and space travel should make for lively arguments over which parser puzzle still bites hardest.

Adventureland

In original treasure hunt, thirteen treasures are scattered across an enchanted landscape navigated with compact verb-noun commands. The split display keeps room text and command entry separate while forests, caverns, and castles provide the hunt's landmarks.

Adventures in Videoland: Rollercoaster

roller-coaster bomb investigation puts a bomb threat at an amusement park behind a compact text-based clue search. A compatible laserdisc setup could add stills and film clips from Rollercoaster, while the text descriptions carry the investigation without that equipment.

Agent USA

In cross-country FuzzBomb chase, train travel across a U.S. map is tied to planting and growing crystals while the FuzzBomb threat spreads. The race to gather 100 crystals makes route planning the obvious point of comparison: coast-to-coast efficiency or a safer regional circuit?

Alice in Wonderland

Wonderland puzzle-platformer mixes jumping, size changes, inventory puzzles, and riddles in a Carroll-inspired Wonderland. Alice chooses emotional responses in conversations, and a character who storms off may not be available again until a particular hour.

Amazon

Amazon rainforest rescue begins with a silent expedition and sends the player into the rainforest using typed commands alongside illustrated scenes. Three difficulty levels and timed sequences give the rescue mission a sharper pace than a purely exploratory parser adventure.

Amnesia

In Manhattan amnesia mystery, an amnesiac fugitive navigates Manhattan with a paper map, subway system, and X-Street Indexer wheel while pursuing a murder conspiracy. Stores keep hours, food and shelter matter, and the detective, citizen, and survivor scores pull the investigation in three directions.

Which of these would you most like to revisit on original hardware: the map-and-code-wheel Manhattan chase, the laserdisc amusement-park experiment, or a notebook-heavy Scott Adams puzzle?