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====Commercial era====
[[Adventure International]] was founded by [[Scott Adams (game designer)|Scott Adams]] (not to be confused with the creator of [[Dilbert]]). In 1978, Adams wrote ''[[Adventureland (video game)|Adventureland]]'', which was loosely patterned after (the (original) ''Colossal Cave Adventure''. He took out a small ad in a computer magazine in order to promote and sell ''Adventureland'', thus creating the first commercial adventure game. In 1979 he founded Adventure International, the first commercial publisher of interactive fiction. That same year, ''[[Dog Star Adventure]]'' was published in [[source code]] form in ''[[SoftSide]]'', spawning legions of similar games in [[BASIC]].
 
The largest company producing works of interactive fiction was [[Infocom]],<ref name="dm4-46">{{cite web | author = Graham Nelson | date = July 2001 | url = http://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/s46.html | title = A short history of interactive fiction | work = The Inform Designer's Manual | access-date = 1 November 2006 |url-status=live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070827050426/http://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/s46.html | archive-date = 27 August 2007 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> which created the ''[[Zork]]'' series and many other titles, among them ''[[Trinity (video game)|Trinity]]'', ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' and ''[[A Mind Forever Voyaging]]''.
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* ''[[80 Days (2014 video game)|80 Days]]'' by [[inkle (video game company)|inkle]] (2014). An interactive adventure based on the novel by [[Jules Verne]], it was nominated by [[Time (magazine)|''TIME'']] as their Game of the Year for 2014.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://time.com/collection-post/3582118/top-10-video-games-2014/|title=These Are the Top 10 Video Games of 2014|first=Matt|last=Peckham|magazine=Time|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123114857/http://time.com/collection-post/3582118/top-10-video-games-2014/|archive-date=23 November 2017}}</ref>
* ''[[9:05]]'' by [[Adam Cadre]]. It is commonly seen as an easy gateway for people to get involved with interactive fiction.<ref name="jayisgames">{{cite web |title=9:05 |author=Bibby, Jay |date=11 June 2008 |website=[[Jay Is Games]] |url=https://jayisgames.com/review/905.php |access-date=12 June 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107191348/http://jayisgames.com/review/905.php |archive-date=7 January 2017 }}</ref>
* [[17776]] by [[Jon Bois]]. It is a "serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative."
* ''[[Black Mirror: Bandersnatch]]'', by [[Charlie Brooker]] (2018). An interactive film in the science fiction [[anthology series]] ''[[Black Mirror]]''.