Commodore 64 · Text adventure
1978–1979 · Adventure International · designed by Scott Adams
Find the 13 lost treasures and bring them back. Look out for the bear, the bees and the dragon. This disk opens with a menu: type 1 and press Return.
Press the play button on the screen above, then click inside it so it gets your keystrokes. The full-screen button is in the player's bottom corner. Running on the Internet Archive.
In 1978 Scott Adams squeezed a full adventure game into 16K of memory on a TRS-80, and he and his wife Alexis started Adventure International to sell it. These are the early Commodore 64 releases from 1981.
The parser understands two words, a verb and a noun, like GO NORTH, GET LAMP or LIGHT LAMP. Short commands work best. When you get stuck, try LOOK and examine everything.