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|image = DW VG 1st Adv stage3.jpg | |image = DW VG 1st Adv stage3.jpg | ||
|doctor = Fifth Doctor | |doctor = Fifth Doctor | ||
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|publisher = BBC Software | |publisher = BBC Software | ||
|platform = | |writer = [[Jeremy Ruston]] | ||
|genre = | |platform = [[BBC Micro]] | ||
|genre = Action | |||
|release date = [[1983 (releases)|1983]] | |release date = [[1983 (releases)|1983]] | ||
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'''''The First Adventure''''' was the first officially licensed ''[[Doctor Who]]'' video game | {{title dab away}} | ||
'''''Doctor Who: The First Adventure''''' was a [[1983 (releases)|1983]] action video game. Released for the [[BBC Micro]], it was the first officially licensed ''[[Doctor Who]]'' video game. | |||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
The [[Fifth Doctor]] makes his way through four different stages, each a Who-themed variation of then-popular arcade games: | The [[Fifth Doctor]] makes his way through four different stages, each a Who-themed variation of then-popular arcade games: ''[[Pac-Man]]'', {{wi|Frogger}}, ''[[Space Invaders]]'' and ''[[Battleship (game)|Battleship]]''. | ||
=== | == Plot == | ||
=== ''The Labyrinth of Death'' === | |||
The Doctor has to escape from the [[Labyrinth of Death]], whose other inhabitants, the evil [[Weevils of Ourouborous Vl]], are anxious to make a meal of him. But the Doctor must collect the three segments of the [[Key to Time]]. And the proximity-worms are wriggling nearer and nearer... | The Doctor has to escape from the [[Labyrinth of Death]], whose other inhabitants, the evil [[Weevils of Ourouborous Vl]], are anxious to make a meal of him. But the Doctor must collect the three segments of the [[Key to Time]]. And the proximity-worms are wriggling nearer and nearer... | ||
=== | === ''The Prison'' === | ||
The Doctor has made it out of the Labyrinth, but discovers that his delectable companion has been imprisoned in the awesome [[Space Citadel]], a fortress defended by a moat teeming with [[Monsters of the Space Citadel|monsters]]. The Doctor knows he must blow the [[castle]] up; but the explosive charges must be carried across the [[moat]] first... | The Doctor has made it out of the Labyrinth, but discovers that his delectable companion has been imprisoned in the awesome [[Space Citadel]], a fortress defended by a moat teeming with [[Monsters of the Space Citadel|monsters]]. The Doctor knows he must blow the [[castle]] up; but the explosive charges must be carried across the [[moat]] first... | ||
=== | === ''Terrordactyls'' === | ||
The Doctor has found the Invasion Plans, the [[Key to Power]], The [[Tree of Knowledge]], the [[Elixir of Life]] and the winner of the next [[Grand National]], but he must get back to [[the TARDIS]]. In the way is the Great Space-Time Void, domain of the deadly [[Terrordactyl]]s... | The Doctor has found the Invasion Plans, the [[Key to Power]], The [[Tree of Knowledge]], the [[Elixir of Life]] and the winner of the next [[Grand National]], but he must get back to [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. In the way is the Great Space-Time Void, domain of the deadly [[Terrordactyl]]s... | ||
=== | === ''The Box of Tantalus'' === | ||
If they escape to tell the tale, the Doctor and his companion must cross another part of the [[galaxy]] in the trusty TARDIS. On the viewing screen appears the mysterious [[Box of Tantalus]] (minor). To end their journey, they must find and destroy the [[Invisible monster (The First Adventure)|invisible monsters]] who lurk in the Box; and [[time]], as always, is running out... | If they escape to tell the tale, the Doctor and his companion must cross another part of the [[galaxy]] in the trusty TARDIS. On the viewing screen appears the mysterious [[Box of Tantalus]] (minor). To end their journey, they must find and destroy the [[Invisible monster (The First Adventure)|invisible monsters]] who lurk in the Box; and [[time]], as always, is running out... | ||
== Story notes == | |||
[[File:The First Adventure.jpg|thumb|''Doctor Who: The First Adventure'' cover.]] | |||
==== Release history ==== | |||
* While this was the first ''licensed'' Doctor Who video game, it had been beaten to the market by ''Doctor Who Adventure'',<ref name="the80s">Howe, David J., Stammers, Mark, Walker, Stephen James, 1997, ''[[Doctor Who: The Eighties]]'', Doctor Who Books, an imprint of [[Virgin Books]], London, p.166</ref> a completely unofficial, and therefore technically illegal, game. | |||
* The aforementioned guide and screenshots are taken from the ''[[Radio Times]]'' [[Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Special]]. | |||
* BBC Software soon followed up with ''[[Doctor Who and the Warlord]]''. | |||
== Gallery == | == Gallery == | ||
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DW Computer Game First 5.jpg | DW Computer Game First 5.jpg | ||
DW Computer Game First 1.jpg | DW Computer Game First 1.jpg | ||
The First Adventure cassette.jpg|Cassette | |||
The First Adventure instructions cover.jpg|Instruction manual cover | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
== External links == | |||
* [https://bbcmicro.co.uk/jsbeeb/play.php?autoboot&disc=https://bbcmicro.co.uk/gameimg/discs/980/Disc055-DoctorWhoTheFirstAdventure.ssd&noseek Play The First Adventure] on BBC Micro games archive | |||
== Footnotes == | == Footnotes == | ||
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[[Category:Fifth Doctor video games]] | |||
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[[Category: | [[Category:Video games with unique variations of the Doctor Who theme]] | ||