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; the EAG now recognizes 255 sequentially-numbered Eamon adventures, with a smaller set of adventures either unnumbered or numbered in different ways.

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 255 (Tenement of the Damned). 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.

Exceptions

Some publicly-available Eamon adventures are either unnumbered or numbered in ways different from the main series.

• The four adventures published by Softdisk are numbered 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 are numbered AT1 (The Sub-Aquan Laboratory) and AT2 (The Crypt Crasher & the Tomb of Horrors).
• The three adventures created for PC systems are numbered PC1 (The Ice Cave), PC2 (Cronum's Castle), and PC3 (Lord of the Underland).
• Leadlight by Wade Clarke is identified as WC1.
• The Adventurer's General Store for Eamon Pro is identified as PRO.
• The incomplete Hammer's Slammers and Little Green Software's The Haunted House are 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; two of these were the Apple Avocation Alliance (AAA) and A.P.P.L.E. 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. Number 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. Number 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

In this wiki

This wiki identifies adventures using the same sequential numbers as assigned by the EAG. In the comparatively few cases where publicly-available Eamon adventures are not numbered as part of the main series by the EAG (Redemption, The Ice Cave, Leadlight, etc.), this wiki extends the sequence and assigns them main series numbers. The wiki follows this practice in order to more easily present all Eamon adventures together as a single set, and as an aid to navigation.

Please note that this extension to the official numbering sequence is strictly an internal convention within this wiki, and is not authorized by any outside parties. EAG-assigned identifiers should be recognized as the official numbers.

This wiki provides a template for easily converting any adventure number into its corresponding title — see Template:Title for details.

See also

• Adventures Portal

External links

• Master adventures list at the EAG
• Eamon Deluxe adventures list at the EAG