Adventure number

An adventure number is a unique serial number used to identify an adventure. The practice of numbering Eamon adventures began in the early 1980s and was continued by the National Eamon Users Club and the Eamon Adventurer's Guild who sequentially-numbered 255 adventures, with a smaller set of adventures either unnumbered or numbered in different ways. Currently there are 280 numbered Eamon adventures.

The Adventures Portal lists all adventure numbers and titles.

Series

Main series

The main series of Eamon adventure numbers runs from 1 (The Beginners Cave) to 280 (The Wayfarers Inn). While the numbers reflect the order in which adventures were formally added to the list, they do not necessarily indicate the order in which the adventures were created; in some cases an adventure with a higher number may have been written prior to some of its predecessors.

A single adventure that spans multiple diskettes normally has a single number. One exception is the The Search for the Key (#80) and The Rescue Mission (#81), which though numbered as separate adventures form two parts of a single story. Tom Zuchowski in the June 1989 issue of the Eamon Adventurer's Guild Newsletter notes that the two likely should have been listed as a single two-disk adventure, but since they had already been listed separately it was "too late to change it." The two are sometimes numbered as #80a and #80b.

Adventure numbers were originally assigned by NEUC president John Nelson until around 1988 when Tom Zuchowski assumed responsibility as president of the EAG. Webmaster Matthew Clark took over from Zuchowski around 2004. Since November 2020 numbers have been assigned and managed by Eamon Wiki webmaster Huw Williams.

Exceptions

Some publicly-available Eamon adventures did not appear in past lists or were numbered in ways different from the main series. These have since been added to the main series.

The four adventures published by Softdisk were numbered by the EAG according to the issue in which they appeared: SD137 (Redemption), SD152 (Banana Republic), SD156 (The Curse of Talon), and SD159 (Edgar's Adventures).
The two adventures created for the Atari were numbered AT1 (The Sub-Aquan Laboratory) and AT2 (The Crypt Crasher & the Tomb of Horrors).
The three adventures created for PC systems were numbered PC1 (The Ice Cave), PC2 (Cronum's Castle), and PC3 (Lord of the Underland).
Leadlight by Wade Clarke was identified as WC1.
The Adventurer's General Store for Eamon Pro was identified as PRO.
The incomplete Hammer's Slammers and Little Green Software's The Haunted House were unnumbered.

The seven adventures of the SwordThrust series follow the order assigned by CE Software.

Eamon Deluxe

Eamon Deluxe groups adventures together into numbered sets. The system's 25 current sets contain nearly all the known and publicly-available Eamon adventures, as well as some created for variants or other related systems. Some sets group together the adventures of a single notable author (e.g., 02, The Donald Brown Adventures); others group adventures by theme or style (e.g., 19, Worst of the Classic Adventures), or into general collections (e.g., 16, Classic Eamon Adventures, Vol. 4). A few sets contain only a single adventure (e.g., 22, A Runcible Cargo).

Each adventure in Eamon Deluxe has a number that consists of the two-digit set plus the two-digit adventure, connected by a hyphen. For instance, The Waiting Room is the fifth adventure in the seventh set (The Frank Black Adventures Deluxe) and is identified as EDX07-05.

Obsolete series

In the early- to mid-1980s some distributors of Eamon adventures had their own systems for numbering disks that differed from that of the NEUC; these included the Apple Avocation Alliance, A.P.P.L.E., and Dynacomp. Reproduced below are the latest available versions of their Eamon catalogs using their unique numbering.

Extended content

Apple Avocation Alliance
The AAA's system was in use at least into 1983 and is documented in Robert Plamondon's Creative Computing article.

AAA #	Title	Modern #
E01	The Beginners Cave	1
E02	The Lair of the Minotaur	2
E03	The Cave of the Mind	3
E04	The Zyphur Riverventure	4
E05	Castle of Doom	5
E06	The Death Star	6
E07	The Devil's Tomb	7
E08	The Abductor's Quarters	8
E09	Assault on the Clone Master	9
E10	The Magic Kingdom	10
E11	The Tomb of Molinar	11
E12	The Quest for Trezore	12
E13	The Lost Island of Apple	29
E14	The Underground City	30
E15	The Caves of Treasure Island	13
E16	Furioso	14
E17	The Caves of Mondamen	16
E18	The Temple of Ngurct	23
E19	The Senator's Chambers	22
E20	The Black Death	20
EDD	Dungeon Designer's Diskette
EU	Eamon Utilities

A.P.P.L.E.
A.P.P.L.E.'s series, as shown in their product catalog, includes 42 adventures and two utilities and was in use through at least 1986.

APPLE #	Title	Modern #
0	Eamon Dungeon Designer
1	The Beginners Cave	1
2	The Lair of the Minotaur	2
3	The Cave of the Mind	3
4	The Zyphur Riverventure	4
5	Castle of Doom	5
6	The Death Star	6
7	The Devil's Tomb	7
8	The Abductor's Quarters	8
9	Assault on the Clone Master	9
10	The Magic Kingdom	10
11	The Tomb of Molinar	11
12	The Quest for Trezore	12
13	The Lost Island of Apple	29
14	The Underground City	30
15	The Caves of Treasure Island	13
16	Furioso	14
17	Merlin's Castle	17
18	Hogarth Castle	18
19	Death Trap	19
20	The Black Death	20
21	Improved Dungeon Designer
22	The Senator's Chambers	22
23	The Temple of Ngurct	23
24	Black Mountain	24
25	Nuclear Nightmare	25
26	Assault on the Mole Man	26
27	Revenge of the Mole Man	27
28	The Gauntlet	31
29	The Caves of Mondamen	16
30	Heroes Castle	15
31	The Tower of London	28
32	The Feast of Carroll	53
33	The Master's Dungeon	55
34	Crystal Mountain	54
35	The Lost Adventure	56
36	The Manxome Foe	57
37	Behind the Sealed Door	50
38	The Land of Death	58
39	The Jungles of Vietnam	59
40	The Black Castle of NaGog	69
41	The Sewers of Chicago	60
42	The Caverns of Doom	62
43	Valkenburg Castle	63
44	Modern Problems	64

Dynacomp
Dynacomp's Eamon collection appears in issue #30 of their software catalog (1984) and matches the modern numbering with the exception of a handful of items.

Dynacomp #	Title	Modern #
1–42: Same ordering and numbers as modern list
43	Ground Zero	101
44	The Eamon Railroad	102
45	Top Secret	103
46	The Lost World	104
47	The Strange Resort	105
A	Eamon Dungeon Designer
B	Eamon Utilities #1
C	Eamon Utilities #2
D	Eamon Utilities #3

In this wiki

The Eamon Wiki identifies adventures using the same sequential numbers as assigned by the NEUC and the EAG. In the comparatively few cases where the clubs did not give publicly-available Eamon adventures numbers in the main series (Redemption, The Ice Cave, Land of the Mountain King, etc.), the wiki extends the sequence and assigns them main series numbers in order to more easily present all Eamon adventures together as a single set, and as an aid to navigation. This uniform adventure numbering system became the official Eamon numbering in November 2020 when Huw Williams assumed responsibility for managing and assigning adventure numbers.

This wiki provides templates for easily converting adventure numbers into titles, and vice versa:

Template:Title: Returns the title associated with an adventure number.
Template:Number: Returns the adventure number associated with a title.

External links

EAG Online: Master List