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My recent Oriclopedia videos were kind of technical (ULA, Storage Devices, etc...) so I thought that it would be cool to make a video about the first generation of Text Adventure games on the Oric, the ones that came in nice large boxes with posters and proper manuals!

Direct links:
- 00:00 - Intro
- 00:15 - Dan Diamond presents
- 01:12 - ** Salamander Software **
- 01:45 - Oric Trek
- 02:14 - Classic Racing & Games Compendium
- 02:36 - Franklin's Tomb & Lost in Space
- 07:15 - The Hobbit
- 11:00 - ** Tevrog Software **
- 11:01 - Quest for Power & Tevrogs Kingdom
- 13:50 - ** Level 9 **
- 14:27 - Colossal Adventure
- 19:02 - Adventure Quest
- 19:47 - Dungeon Adventure
- 19:57 - Lords of Time
- 21:04 - Snowball
- 21:59 - ** Gilsoft **
- 22:00 - The Quill

Dan Diamond:
- Franklin's Tomb: https://www.oric.org/software/franklins_tomb-44.html
- Lost in Space: https://www.oric.org/software/lost_in_space-1237.html
- Fishy Business: https://www.oric.org/software/fishy_business-1439.html

The Hobbit:
- https://www.oric.org/software/hobbit__the-54.html

Quest for Power/Tevrogs Kingdom:
- https://www.oric.org/software/quest_for_power_tevrogs_kingdom_2-695.html

Jewels of Darkness:
- Colossal Adventure: https://www.oric.org/software/colossal_adventure-28.html
- Adventure Quest: https://www.oric.org/software/adventure_quest-1388.html
- Dungeon Adventure: https://www.oric.org/software/dungeon_adventure-39.html

Snowball:
- https://www.oric.org/software/snowball-771.html

Lords of Time:
- https://www.oric.org/software/lords_of_time-67.html


References:
- CASA/Solution Archive web site: https://solutionarchive.com
- Pinforic: https://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXinfocomXinterpretersXoldXpinfocom.html
- The Quill: https://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=detail&num_log=1378


As usual, feel free to comment if you have remarks, suggestions, questions, or ideas of topics you'd like to be covered in my videos.

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