Doctor Who: The First Adventure
Featuring the Fifth Doctor, this is the first video game produced based on the UK TV Doctor Who series. Released for the BBC Micro, it is similar to a mini-game collection.
Doctor Who: The First Adventure is an arcade, released 31 December 1983 on BBC Microcomputer System.
What Doctor Who: The First Adventure is
Doctor Who: The First Adventure was released in 1983. It was published by BBC microcomputers. It is available on BBC Microcomputer System only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Featuring the Fifth Doctor, this is the first video game produced based on the UK TV Doctor Who series. Released for the BBC Micro, it is similar to a mini-game collection.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Doctor Who series
Doctor Who: The First Adventure is the first of 41 entries we hold in the Doctor Who series. The next entry was Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror in 1985.
What it launched against
Doctor Who: The First Adventure launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness and Zoo Keeper.
Released around the same time: Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness, Zoo Keeper.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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