Aventuras AD was a videogame Spanish producer, one of the most popular in Spain

Spain

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 during the Golden Era of Spanish Software

Golden Era of Spanish Software

The Golden Era of Spanish Software was a time, between 1983 and 1992, when Spain became the second 8 bit entertainment software producer in Europe, behind only the United Kingdom...

 in the eighties

1980s

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, specialized in text adventure games. It was created as a seal split from Dinamic Software

Dinamic Software

Dinamic Software was a Spanish videogames producer and publisher company. It was founded in 1983, and its activity ceased in 1992, comprising the Golden Era of Spanish Software. One year later, a part of its owners founded an independent company named Dinamic Multimedia...

 in 1987 (AD comes from Aventuras Dinamic, the name they had when they were part from Dinamic from 1985 to 1987). They popularized the genre of aventura conversacional (a spanish word for text adventures that have static graphics, which in English is part of the primitive graphic adventures), and they would release games until 1992, when they, like the rest of the Spanish companies of the time, had to close on bankruptcy, unable to switch in time to 16 bit development. They would release their titles mainly for ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

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, Amstrad CPC

Amstrad CPC

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, Commodore 64

Commodore 64

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, MSX

MSX

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, IBM PC

IBM PC

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, Amstrad PCW

Amstrad PCW

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, and in the last years also Atari ST

Atari ST

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 and Commodore Amiga.

Released titles

• La Aventura Original (based on Colossal Cave Adventure
  Colossal Cave Adventure
  Colossal Cave Adventure gave its name to the computer adventure game genre . It was originally designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky...
  
  )
• El Jabato
• La aventura espacial
• La diosa de Cozumel
• Los templos sagrados
• Chichen Itzá