I was only about 8 when Adventure was released. I basically had no interest in it at all. We'd go to Sears or the mall every week and I'd grab a handful of cartridges, but I never wanted this one.
It is very strange considering my affinity for weird stuff. I loved the BASIC Programming cartridge, and later in life, I would amass a huge Infocom collection starting with Zork on the C=64. But this graphical Adventure held no interest for me or my sister. Neither did Superman, which was modeled after it. Sure, I heard a lot about it. I heard enough to squick me, because it seemed that the devs were sort of abusing the hardware limitations to provision this weird adventure-y experience in a graphical format that I would not enjoy. (Nor would I get very far in exploring this world because it was so, picky-picky-picky. If you ever played E.T. on the 2600, you'd understand!)
When Haunted House was released 2 years later, I did pick that one up, out of morbid curiosity, I suppose, and it was kind of interesting, but not something that I spent a long time figuring out. I followed the Swordquest series with interest, (the marketing built those up with a real mystique and some epic fanfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordquest#Contest) and invested some time in some of those, but still -- I suppose, even back then, I was far more interested in the "twitch" action type games. We loved Pitfall and other Activision titles such as River Raid.
It is very strange considering my affinity for weird stuff. I loved the BASIC Programming cartridge, and later in life, I would amass a huge Infocom collection starting with Zork on the C=64. But this graphical Adventure held no interest for me or my sister. Neither did Superman, which was modeled after it. Sure, I heard a lot about it. I heard enough to squick me, because it seemed that the devs were sort of abusing the hardware limitations to provision this weird adventure-y experience in a graphical format that I would not enjoy. (Nor would I get very far in exploring this world because it was so, picky-picky-picky. If you ever played E.T. on the 2600, you'd understand!)
When Haunted House was released 2 years later, I did pick that one up, out of morbid curiosity, I suppose, and it was kind of interesting, but not something that I spent a long time figuring out. I followed the Swordquest series with interest, (the marketing built those up with a real mystique and some epic fanfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordquest#Contest) and invested some time in some of those, but still -- I suppose, even back then, I was far more interested in the "twitch" action type games. We loved Pitfall and other Activision titles such as River Raid.