Treasure Island

Treasure Island turns Robert Louis Stevenson's famous pirate adventure into a compact computer game, giving you the chance to chase buried treasure without having to spend several weeks at sea. The familiar ingredients are here: pirates, maps, islands, danger, and the ever-present possibility that your carefully planned expedition will end rather abruptly. The game belongs to an era when developers had to squeeze surprisingly ambitious adventures into very modest hardware, so expect imagination to do some of the heavy lifting. Exploration and puzzle solving are more important than flashy presentation, and the experience rewards curiosity rather than frantic button pressing. It has a distinctly old-fashioned adventure-game atmosphere, with simple graphics and plenty of room for the player to fill in the blanks mentally. If you enjoy vintage literary adaptations, Treasure Island is a pleasant reminder that pirates were causing trouble on computers long before modern open-world games discovered them.