Just Adventure

{{Short description|Adventure games website}}

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{{Infobox website

| name = Just Adventure

| logo = Just Adventure.png

| url = [http://www.justadventure.com www.justadventure.com]

| commercial = Yes

| type = Gaming website

| launch_date = 1997

}}

{{VG Adventure}}

Just Adventure is a computer game website dedicated to the genre of adventure games.{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527215601/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/game-theory-fighting-zombies-all-in-a-night-s-work.html | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/31/technology/game-theory-fighting-zombies-all-in-a-night-s-work.html | title=GAME THEORY; Fighting Zombies: All in a Night's Work | author=Herold, Charles | date=October 31, 2002 | work=The New York Times | archive-date=May 27, 2015 | url-status=live }} Founded in 1997, it publishes reviews and previews of adventure games, as well as opinion articles and interviews with game designers. The site was founded by Francis "Randy" Sluganski, who died on November 6, 2012, from cancer.{{cite web |url=http://mixnmojo.com/news/An-adventure-game-fan-has-died |title=An adventure game fan has died |publisher=The International House of Mojo |date=2012-11-08 |access-date=2012-11-10 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200015/http://mixnmojo.com/news/An-adventure-game-fan-has-died |archive-date=2013-10-29 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?pid=160914229 |title=Francis "Randy" Sluganski Classified Obituary |publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=2012-11-08 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222055440/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?pid=160914229 |archive-date=2012-12-22 }}

Ragnar Tornquist, the creator of the adventure games The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey has stated that the reviews on Just Adventure are "very important to [him]".{{cite web | url=http://lparchive.org/Dreamfall/Update%2012/ | title=Dreamfall - Update 12 | publisher=Ragnar Tornquist | access-date=2011-11-30 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013005834/http://lparchive.org/Dreamfall/Update%2012/ | archive-date=2011-10-13 | url-status=live}} In 2000, PC Gamer US columnist Michael Wolf called Just Adventure "the best site on the Web for the adventure game fan".{{cite magazine | author=Wolf, Michael | title=Alternate Lives: Just Give Me Adventure | magazine=PC Gamer | publisher=Future US | volume=7 | issue=8 | date=August 2000 | page=132}} In 2003, Mark H. Walker noted that Just Adventure was "the Internet's largest gaming site devoted to adventure games".{{cite book |author=Walker, Mark H. |author-link=Mark H. Walker |title=Games That Sell! |date=June 25, 2003 |publisher=Wordware Publishing |isbn=155622950X |page=35 }} Similarly, Anastasia Salter wrote in 2014 that Just Adventure was "one of the major adventure game fan sites on the web".{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FGpvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA141 |title = What is Your Quest?: From Adventure Games to Interactive Books|isbn = 9781609382759|last1 = Salter|first1 = Anastasia|date = November 2014| publisher=University of Iowa Press }}

The site has not been updated since August 2019