Line #16 VideoGame/Venture

Context VideoGame / Venture

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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/venture_1981.png]]
2	''Venture'' is a 1981 arcade video game by {{Creator/Exidy}} that was ported over to the Platform/{{Atari 2600}}, the Platform/ColecoVision, and the Platform/{{Intellivision}}.
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4	The goal of ''Venture'' is to collect treasure from a dungeon. The player, named Winky, is equipped with a bow and arrow and explores a dungeon with rooms and hallways. The hallways are patrolled by large, tentacled monsters (the "Hallmonsters", according to Exidy) who cannot be injured, killed, or stopped in any way.
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6	Once in a room, the player may kill monsters, avoid traps and gather treasures. If they stay in any room too long, a Hallmonster will enter the room, chase and kill them. [[FromBadToWorse Worst, dead monsters were ''still'' deadly to touch, and decayed ''very'' slowly (and shooting them caused the decaying process to start all over again instead of speeding it up). If they blocked an exit or a bottleneck, a Hallmonster usually arrived at that point.]]
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8	!!This game provides examples of
9	* DeadlyWalls: One dungeon (the appropriately-named Wall Room) has nothing but deadly moving walls that protect its treasure. In the arcade version, you can shoot through the walls (though just going around them is faster), but most of the home versions either made the walls invulnerable to attacks or made the player unable to shoot while in the Wall Room.
10	* DungeonCrawling: A very arcade-y example.
11	* EndlessGame: All two or three levels cycle continuously, though not necessarily in order.
12	* FromBadToWorse: The monsters very slowly decay and restart their decay process when shot again, sometimes trapping the player to a spot in the dungeons. [[StalkedByTheBell When it becomes time for a hallmonster to enter]], losing a life would most likely become inevitable.
13	* GameMod: The Atari 2600 version was modded into ''Venture II: The Abysmal Abyss'' and ''[[VideoGame/CastleWolfenstein Wolfenstein 2600]]''.
14	* ImplacableMan: The Hallmonsters.
15	* MazeGame[=/=]ShootEmUp: It's ''{{VideoGame/Berzerk}}'' set in a medieval age fantasy world.
16	* PerpetualSmiler: Winky, until he gets hit by any sort of danger.
17	* StalkedByTheBell: The Hallmonster comes after the player if he takes too long in a dungeon.
18	* TopDownView: Has an overworld-style map that you run through until you enter a dungeon.

Context VideoGame / Venture