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{{Infobox Video Game
|video game name= Doctor Who: The First Adventure
|image= [[File:DW_VG_1st_Adv_cover.jpg|150px]]<br>
|developer=
|publisher= [[BBC Software]]
|platform= [[Wikipedia:BBC Micro|BBC Micro]]
|genre= Various
|release date= [[1983]]
}}
'''''Doctor Who: The First Adventure''''' was the first officially licensed Doctor Who video game, released in [[1983]] on the [[Wikipedia:BBC Micro|BBC Micro]].
[[File:DW_VG_1st_Adv_stage3.jpg|thumb|left|"The First Adventure" third stage.]
The [[Fifth Doctor]] makes his way through four different stages, each a Who-themed variation of then-popular arcade games, including [[Wikipedia:Pac-Man|Pac-Man]], [[Wikipedia:Frogger|Frogger]], [[Wikipedia:Space Invaders|Space Invaders]] and [[Wikipedia:Battleship (video game)|Battleship]].
While this was the first ''licensed'' Doctor Who video game, it was shortly preceeded 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>. BBC Software soon followed up with [[Doctor Who and the Warlord]].
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Revision as of 06:55, 1 January 2010


Doctor Who: The First Adventure was the first officially licensed Doctor Who video game, released in 1983 on the BBC Micro.

[[File:DW_VG_1st_Adv_stage3.jpg|thumb|left|"The First Adventure" third stage.]

The Fifth Doctor makes his way through four different stages, each a Who-themed variation of then-popular arcade games, including Pac-Man, Frogger, Space Invaders and Battleship.

While this was the first licensed Doctor Who video game, it was shortly preceeded by Doctor Who Adventure[1]. BBC Software soon followed up with Doctor Who and the Warlord.


Footnotes

  1. Howe, David J., Stammers, Mark, Walker, Stephen James, 1997, Doctor Who: The Eighties, Doctor Who Books, an imprint of Virgin Books, London, p.166