Amazon (video game)

Amazon
Developer(s)Telarium
Publisher(s)Telarium
Programmer(s)Stephen Warady
Artist(s)David Durand
Writer(s)Michael Crichton
Platform(s)Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Mac, MSX
Release1984
Genre(s)Interactive fiction
Mode(s)Single-player

Amazon is an interactive fiction graphic adventure game. The game was published by Telarium in 1984 and written by Michael Crichton.[1]

  1. ^ Murphy, Jamie (May 13, 2013). "Stepping into the Story: Players participate in 'interactive fiction'". Time. Vol. 125, no. 19. Reported by Cristina Garcia. p. 64. Micheal Crichton (The Andromedia Strain, The Terminal Man) has actually created a software work from scratch: Amazon (Telarium; $39.95), which transports the player and a sidekick parrot named Paco into the jungles of South America in search of a lost city and hidden emeralds.