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{{Infobox video game
|title= Pirate Adventure
|image= Pirate Adventure Coverart.png
|caption=
|developer= 
|publisher= [[Creative Computing (magazine)|Creative Computing Software]]<br />[[Adventure International]]
|designer= [[Scott Adams (game designer)|Scott Adams]]
|series= ''[[List of Scott Adams Adventure video games|Adventure]]''
|engine= 
|modes= 
|platforms= [[TRS-80]], [[VIC-20]], [[TI-99/4A]], [[Apple II]], [[Atari 8-bit]], [[Commodore PET|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 (game designer)|Scott Adams]]. It was published by Adam's company, [[Adventure International]], in 1979.

==Description==
[[File:Pirate-adventure.jpg|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 (video game)|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 (game terminology)|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 (magazine)|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 [[Game engine|engine]] worked and to create their own adventures using this or a similar design.

==Reception==
''Pirate Adventure'' was reviewed in issue #42 of ''[[Dragon (magazine)|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"/>

==Reviews==
*''Home Computing Weekly'' - Apr 17, 1984<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/mags/hcw/ills/058/lc-p027.jpg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140919004557/http://acornelectron.co.uk/mags/hcw/ills/058/lc-p027.jpg|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 19, 2014|title=Review|website=acornelectron.co.uk}} </ref>
*''[[Commodore User]]'' - Aug, 1985<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/commodore-user-magazine-23/page/n21/mode/2up|title=Commodore User Magazine Issue 23|date=August 1985}}</ref>
*''[[Computer and Video Games]]'' #41 - 1985/Mar<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Book_of_Adventure_1985-03_EMAP_Publishing_GB_supplement_issue_041/page/n19/mode/2up|title=Book of Adventure (1985-03)(EMAP Publishing)(GB)&#91;supplement, issue 041&#93;|date=March 1985}}</ref>
*''[[Computer and Video Games]]'' #67 - 1987/May<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ComputerAndVideoGamesIssue067May87/page/n65/mode/2up|title = Computer_And_Video_Games_Issue_067_May_87}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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{{Adventure International}}
{{Treasure Island}}

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