Sea Search Download (1984 Adventure Game)

In Sea Search you must find several treasures throughout this aquatic adventure. It will require deep sea diving and a little digging to find them all. You will need to elude several dangers from pirates to man eating sharks or become fish bait.

When the game was first released it was call Sea Quest and later changed to Sea Search. This graphical interactive fiction game uses standard single letter direction N,S,E,W for movement. You can also SAVE your current location on cassette for restarting later. The command parser is a standard verb noun type (Go Door).

In mid-1980s, a small company called Mark Data Products released 6 parser-based graphic adventure games similar to early Polarware and Scott Adams titles. While the games are reasonably successful on Tandy's CoCo computer, the IBM PC versions did not achieve the same level of success. While the graphics are quite good at the time, the parser is quite primitive - only simple verb+noun constructs such as GET HAT are understood, and some verbs that are common in IF games such as SEARCH are not always recognized. Fortunately, the games make up for primitive parser with well-written plot, fun characters, and some clever puzzles.

The plot of Sea Search: "Get your shark repellant and scuba tanks ready! The underwater scenes in this adventure are unforgettable. You'll run into a pirate, a mermaid, and some hungry sharks in this colorful and unique treasure hunt."

Thanks to the generosity of Bob Withers, co-creator of these old games who put both the games and their source codes up on his website for free download, you can now experience a forgotten past of the early days of adventure gaming. All are recommended, but if you want the best of the bunch, I highly recommend my personal favorites: Trekboer and Calixto Island.

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