Adventure XT

Adventure XT is a video game in the adventure genre originally released in 2007. It is currently playable on DOS.

The sinister wizard Mordimar, who has gotten his hands on the powerful magical artifact Orb of Fate, is slowly sapping the life force of the forests of Blarg. Your goal: recover the Orb, for the sake of the ravaged forests!

Author Paul Panks is known in IF circles for having settled on one of the earliest forms of text adventure (perhaps contemporary with the game's namesake, the IBM Personal Computer XT?) as the pure, classic ideal that can be visited and revisited in the permutations of his many experiments, unhindered by modern developments in interactive fiction authoring systems, advances in game design, and even improvements in primitive dialects of BASIC, his ostensibly chosen development environment.

In most of them, sparse locations, mute NPCs and monsters to the death appear in predictable (classic?) configurations, fortified with sometimes inspired, sometimes jarring and often anachronistic mixtures of cognitive dissonance - here appear special unlicensed cameos by Gargamel, Azrael and various Smurfs . . . who also rose to fame in North America in a period roughly contemporaneous with the IBM XT.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.