The Big Red Adventure
Encyclopedia
The Big Red Adventure is a PC
adventure game
, created in 1995 by Paolo Costabel for Dynabyte and published by Core Design
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to Nippon Safes. As in Nippon Safes, the main characters are clever Doug, babe Donna and muscular Dino. Donna is abducted by communists.
Doug Nuts is the protagonist of the game. He planned to steal the Crown of Monomakh from a museum in Moscow
, but at the decisive moment things go wrong. Doug, assisted by Donna and Dino, ends up with matters far more serious than a robbery in his hands.
The game uses a special font
called zamenina, in which roughly half of the Latin
characters are replaced by their Cyrillic counterparts. This can be seen on the game cover in the word "Adventure".
The story begins in Moscow
, Russia
. You play as Doug - an international thief who robs museum treasures for a living. You enter a contest so that you can appear on a talk show, and in turn find a secret passage into the museum. But just as the crown is within your grasp, you are knocked unconscious by another thief who takes the crown for himself. You later awaken to find the sirens going off - the authorities are after you, and Doug has no choice but to escape Moscow via train.
Personal computer
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adventure game
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...
, created in 1995 by Paolo Costabel for Dynabyte and published by Core Design
Core Design
Core Design was a British video game studio best known today for creating the popular Tomb Raider series.-History:Based in the city of Derby, England, Core Design was set up in 1988 by Chris Shrigley, Andy Green, Rob Toone, Terry Lloyd, Simon Phipps, Dave Pridmore, Jeremy Heath-Smith and Greg Holmes...
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Developers
- Game designer: Paolo Costabel
- Backgrounds Artist: Alessandro Belli
- Animators: Gabriele Zucchelli, Alessandro Belli
- Programmer: Luciano Montanaro
- Music and Sound Effects: Marco Caprelli
Plot
The game is the sequelSequel
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to Nippon Safes. As in Nippon Safes, the main characters are clever Doug, babe Donna and muscular Dino. Donna is abducted by communists.
Doug Nuts is the protagonist of the game. He planned to steal the Crown of Monomakh from a museum in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, but at the decisive moment things go wrong. Doug, assisted by Donna and Dino, ends up with matters far more serious than a robbery in his hands.
The game uses a special font
Font
In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface...
called zamenina, in which roughly half of the Latin
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...
characters are replaced by their Cyrillic counterparts. This can be seen on the game cover in the word "Adventure".
The story begins in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. You play as Doug - an international thief who robs museum treasures for a living. You enter a contest so that you can appear on a talk show, and in turn find a secret passage into the museum. But just as the crown is within your grasp, you are knocked unconscious by another thief who takes the crown for himself. You later awaken to find the sirens going off - the authorities are after you, and Doug has no choice but to escape Moscow via train.