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Originally Posted by Snarky
As for the Adventure "maze game," that would be the Atari 2600 game, and it did launch the adventure genre. The other adventure genre, that is; the one we tend to call "action-adventure" for the sake of clarity. The Atari Adventure eventually led to Zelda, and from Zelda and Prince of Persia all action-adventures follow.
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Just for the record (not that anyone claimed otherwise), the article doesn't disagree with this. What it says is "it's not the
Adventure text game that served as the catalyst of the genre." Which it definitely isn't, console or no. As a PC-oriented site discussing a PC gaming service, it seems logical that the "genre" referred to here is the one we're accustomed to, without the qualifiers.
(Incidentally, I actually agree that there is a second viable console-centric branch of "adventure" genre terminology.)
