Where are you located?

Also, can you post a mobygames link? "The Adventure" is too generic.

That's literally what the game is called. It's not listed on mobygames

Are you sure it's not just "Adventure" (without "the")? That game was also known as "Colossal Cave" and is a simple text adventure that has been found in many versions, like this one. MobyGames has a list of versions.

It's a completely different game. It's not adventire or versions of that game. I know for sure it's called The Adventure.

Could it have been a rogue-like?

Do you know approximately how old it is, or remember any specific details about it, like the storyline, box art, anything? You really haven't given us much to go on. Only thing that comes to my mind is "The Adventure Collection" put out by Activision(?) in the mid-'90s, although I think that was actually several different games in one...

Kippesoep wrote:

Are you sure it's not just "Adventure" (without "the")? That game was also known as "Colossal Cave" and is a simple text adventure that has been found in many versions, like this one. MobyGames has a list of versions.

Colossal Cave is best played on one of these:

It's not a rogue like. The story of which I remeber is your a young person who has chosen to be the what you made your character as. You have to choose a fault for the character. Different character types have different faults you can choose and for some reason they have honour as a fault. Other faults in the game like cowardness make sense though. When your character is bleeding you don't have moves before the character dies so you have to use a potion or buy one very quickly. You can kill the civilians in the game. The games uses v as the button to save the game. The game is a newer dos game. I remember playing it on some compliation pack and the game was the full version.