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The first game to use this system was ''[[Jewels of Darkness#Colossal Adventure|Colossal Adventure]]'' in early 1982, a faithful conversion of ''[[Colossal Cave Adventure|Adventure]]'' by [[Will Crowther]] and [[Don Woods (programmer)|Don Woods]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The Inform Designer's Manual|first=Nelson|last=Graham|authorlink=graham Nelson|page=349|publisher=Dan Sanderson|year=2001|isbn=0-9713119-0-0|url=http://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107005951/http://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf|archivedate=2015-11-07}}</ref> but with 70 extra locations<ref>http://l9memorial.if-legends.org/html/austin.html</ref> to the end game to fulfill Level 9's preexisting claim in advertisements of "over 200" locations; a remarkable achievement given that [[Gordon Letwin]]'s port of ''Adventure'' to the [[TRS-80]] required a disk drive. That year the company produced two sequels, ''Adventure Quest'' and ''Dungeon Adventure'',{{r|maher20121022}} both of which featured the Demon Lord [[Agaliarept]]. The three titles became known as the ''Middle-earth'' trilogy,<ref name=pcg04>{{ citation | url=https://archive.org/stream/personalcomputergames-magazine-04/PersonalComputerGames_04#page/n31/mode/1up | journal=[[Personal Computer Games]] | title = Level 9 Advertiesment | date=March 1984 | issue=4 | pages=30 }}</ref> with a reference in the instructions to ''Dungeon Adventure'' to the city of [[Minas Tirith]], which features in [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.<ref name=SUser/> When enhanced versions of the three games were published by [[Telecomsoft|Rainbird Software]], the reference to [[Middle-earth]] was quietly deleted; the series became known as ''Jewels of Darkness''; and [[Minas Tirith]] became Valaii. In 1985 Level 9 started to develop their games for disk based systems also.<ref name=cvg43/>
''Snowball'' was the first adventure in the ''[[Silicon Dreams trilogy|Silicon Dreams]]'' trilogy, followed by ''[[Return to Eden]]'' and ''[[The Worm in Paradise]]''.<ref>http://l9memorial.if-legends.org/html/austin.html</ref> ''Red Moon'' and its sequel ''[[The Price of Magik]]'' were bundled together with ''[[Lords of Time]]'' by [[Mandarin Software]] to create yet another trilogy: ''[[Time and Magik]]''.
"Lancelot" was published by [[Mandarin Software]], a division of [[Europress Software]] in 1988. The first person to solve the puzzle in the game won a replica of the Holy Grail, made of solid silver, encrusted with semi-precious stones (amethysts, garnets and opals), with the inside plated in 22-carat gold.
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