Talk:The Adventure Game

Drogna Game

I'm reasonably sure the Drogna Game rules are correct, but it was twenty years ago and I'm working from memory. (I have half an idea I'm conflating two different versions.) Corrections are appreciated. Marnanel 03:42, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)

The Drogna rules changed each series. Originally, contestants had to find the sequence, which would be any drogna of specific shape (ie, a square) or any drogna of a specific colour (ie, green). In the final series, the Drogna game involved the number of sides on the drogna, so the sequence would be: '1. any circle, 2. any crescent, 3. any triangle, 4. any square, 5. any pentagon. I've added a bit more info on the ctaracters and actors. Common mistake on Bill Holmwood, who many people misremember as Australian. [Visitor: Jim]

Game thoughts

My memory of the first series goes like this:

• the contestants didn't know the value of the drogna, and had to work them out with the aid of a Roy G Biv sign and some sort of slot machine (did it give change?).
• The "drogna game" wasn't called that. It was on a black floor (this changed in later series) with the symbols laid out on it. They had to get across stepping only on symbols which were either the right colour or the right shape. Stepping on an incorrect one, I think, set off klaxons? Later in the same programme, I think they had to do it again except that this time, if they stepped on the wrong one, they were evaporated.
• The "simple computer game" mentioned as one of the tasks was not seen as particularly simple then: remember, the Spectrum and BBC computers had just come out! The computer used in the programme was of course a BBC B computer.
• There was usually a game which involved getting something out of a perspex container and which required several steps to complete. Several containers, blocks, keys and jugs of water (so that you could pour water into tall narrow containers to get the contents to float up to the top) would be provided. Paul Darrow's lot worked out that they could just stretch some of the chains connecting different podia (on which were different components) so that at full stretch, they could skip one or two of the stages. The Argonds, watching this on their monitor, argued about whether this was cheating or no :)

Another game which I think was in the second series and which replaced the computer game was one which involved one contestant being in a darkened maze. The other contestants, from their vantage point with a heat-sensitive camera showing the contestant in the maze, had to direct the maze contestant out by telling them where to step in the dark.

I'm reluctant to put all this into the article until someone else confirms that my memory is not playing tricks!

Telsa 15:00, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

The BBC Microcomputer wasn't released until toward the end of 1981, and featured only in the later series. Earlier episodes used an HP and an Apple II. 146.90.194.98 (talk) 16:18, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Not a children's show

This wasn't aimed specifically at kids, like the article suggests. It was shown on BBC2 in the evenings in a time slot when they always had family programmes. It was no more a children's show than The Great Egg Race or The Crystal Maze. --Psychonaut3000 02:31, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Questions

Two Questions i've been wanting to ask for ages.

First of all, how did the "how many argons around the pond" game work in series 4? I could never figure it out.

It think it had to do with how many fingers Gandor had on the desk. BillyH 18:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

And Secondly, the BBC in the mid 90's created a kids game show caled "Incredible Games" which was VERY similar to The Adventure Game, It had most of the games, notably the Vortex Game (but replaced with a knight) and the crystal caves one. Was it a sequel series? or jusr coincidence?

I never noticed the simularity before, I'd say coincidence. There's a Wikipedia article on Incredible Games here. BillyH 18:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Excellente! Thanks Billy ^_^

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contestants

Rather than three celebrities is was two celebs and a member of the public. Jooler (talk) 10:47, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Vortex not pure chance in some cases

Maybe I'd forgotten the layout of the Vortex, but I seem to remember one episode in which one of the contestants (who seemed particularly bright and worked out that Lesley was the mole and how not to get evaporated by the mole-finding game) had got exactly half-way across and could finish by a straight line either to the left or to the right; he used his milk which promptly got evaporated (they made the joke at the end of the show) and he was therefore able to move in complete safety in the other direction as the Vortex could no longer move in front of him. --80.175.250.220 (talk) 11:58, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

How do they know what happened in S01S02 and S02E04 ?!

I see that someone has added information to the main article on what happens in Series 1 Episode 2 and Series 2 Episdoe 4, How can this be possible if the master tapes for these 2 episodes no longer exist in any format? If the person who posted the info. has recordings of these two episodes, would they please be willing to contact BBC Worldwide and send them their best quality versions , and also please if possible to upload the video to Youtube / thebox.bz / UKnova.tv afterwards so that the rest of us get to see them as opposed to them being stuck in the BBC's vaults forever... --Live Steam Mad (talk) 20:04, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Request for release on DVD to BBC Worldwide

BTW PLEASE release this on DVD with a few extras BBC Worldwide! I wrote to them to ask them, please can others do the same, as the more that write a short e-mail to them, the better the chances of a release, as this programme has never been released commercially in ANY format, and I've waited 30 years to see them in decent quality! BTW write to BBC Worldwide at http://www.bbcworldwide.com/ and not the BBC, BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC. --Live Steam Mad (talk) 20:04, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Missing episodes

Is there a "proper" Wiki way to replace the carets, etc.? --Allan Lewis (talk) 22:54, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

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Is this the first escape room

The contestants do puzzles to move on usually to the next room. The puzzles are linked so why isn't this considered the first example of an escape room? 81.106.210.79 (talk) 08:15, 4 September 2023 (UTC)