Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multi-player design difficult. "Colossal Cave Adventure" is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include "Zork", "King's Quest", "The Secret of Monkey Island", and "Myst".
Star Trek: Phaser Strike
"Star Trek: Phaser Strike" was released in 1979 by Milton Bradley for the Microvision hand-held game system alongside the film "", and as one of seven launch titles for the console. This made it the first home console video game release for the "Star Trek" franchise. The package came with a game cartridge overlay for the base unit along with an instruction manual. After Milton Bradley lost the license during the following year, a new non-"Star Trek" related version was released, simply called "Phaser Strike". Internationally it was sold without the "Star Trek" license at all; in Italy and German it was called "Shooting Star" and it France it was titled "Cannon Phaser".