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After the success of their first game "Adventureland", games followed rapidly, with Adventure International (or "AI") releasing about two games a year. Initially the games were drawn from the founders imagination, with themes ranging from Fantasy to Horror and sometimes Science Fiction . Some of the later games were written by Scott Adams and other collaborators. Adventure Internationals' games became known for quality, with a reputation only exceeded in the field at the time by Infocom . Fourteen games later, Adventure International began to release games drawn from film and fiction. The extremely rare Buckaroo Banzai game, developed with Phillip Case, was based on the film . Adventure International released three Questprobe games based on the Marvel characters: "The Incredible Hulk", "Spider-Man" and "Torch and the Thing". By the end of 1982 , game tastes were changing. The traditional text-based Adventure Game market had moved to graphical based adventures. Games like The Hobbit had increased expectations of such games, and although Adventure International games included graphics of a sort, they were significantly inferior to contemporary offerings at the time and the company was rapidly losing Market Share . Adventure International went Bankrupt in 1985 . The Copyright s for its games reverted to the bank and eventually back to Scott Adams who released them as Shareware . At its peak in late 1983 to early 1984 Adventure International employed approximately 50 individuals, and published titles from over 300 independent programmer/authors. In Europe the "Adventure International" name was a trading name of AdventureSoft and other games were released under the name that were not from Adventure International in the USA . Alexis Adams has remained in the online world and runs the online sex site FatFantasy.net {Link without Title} . Scott Adams can be reached through his homepage at www.msadams.com {Link without Title} THE GAMES Scott Adams's original twelve adventure games were
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