Scott Adams Adventure Games, MultiLingual?

Post by **Jeff-20** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:49 am

This may be a stupid question.

Were Scott Adams' Adventure games released in regions without English as a primary language? If so, do versions exist in other languages? Or were users expected to understand English?

French? Italian? Swedish? German? Etc...

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:52 am

I think Italian users were expected to understand English. I remember having discussed this issue with some friends of mine back then (a group of some 7-8 VIC users in 1983-84, divided into those with and without colour TV, but this is another story...). We even tried to ask for Italian versions in several stores, but no one had heard about them.

Too bad we were newbies in English, so we could hardly understand text adventures, and even some game instructions were read with the help of a vocabulary.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:48 am

I think localized games didn't become popular until the NES generation, i.e. 1985-86 and later. I have never heard of translated versions of the Scott Adams' adventures. I don't know if it is possible, i.e. how tight the code is to the vocabulary. It could be interesting to look into.

A few more simple games - in particular those in Basic - may have appeared in other languages, when it is just a matter of changing a few strings of text.