<s>
Amazon	B-Device
is	O
an	O
interactive	O
fiction	O
graphic	O
adventure	O
game	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
game	O
was	O
published	O
by	O
Telarium	O
in	O
1984	B-Application
and	O
written	O
by	O
Michael	O
Crichton	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
early	O
1980s	O
he	O
,	O
programmer	O
Stephen	O
Warady	O
,	O
and	O
artist	O
David	O
Durand	O
began	O
developing	O
an	O
Apple	B-Device
II	I-Device
graphic	O
adventure	O
game	O
based	O
on	O
Crichton	O
's	O
novel	O
Congo	O
;	O
he	O
sometimes	O
programmed	O
game	O
sequences	O
which	O
Warady	O
converted	O
into	O
much	O
faster	O
assembly	B-Language
language	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
team	O
revised	O
the	O
game	O
(	O
renamed	O
Amazon	B-Device
)	O
,	O
moving	O
the	O
setting	O
from	O
Africa	O
to	O
South	O
America	O
and	O
changing	O
a	O
diamond	B-Application
mine	I-Application
to	O
an	O
emerald	O
mine	O
;	O
the	O
novel	O
's	O
Amy	O
the	O
talking	O
gorilla	B-Application
became	O
Paco	O
the	O
talking	O
parrot	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Because	O
the	O
game	O
was	O
mostly	O
complete	O
,	O
Telarium	O
was	O
able	O
to	O
port	O
it	O
to	O
the	O
Commodore	O
64	O
before	O
Amazons	B-Device
release	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Amazon	B-Device
was	O
the	O
best-selling	O
Telarium	O
title	O
with	O
as	O
many	O
as	O
100,000	O
copies	O
sold	O
,	O
the	O
majority	O
likely	O
for	O
the	O
Commodore	O
64	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
James	O
Delson	O
of	O
Family	O
Computing	O
reviewed	O
the	O
Apple	B-Device
II	I-Device
version	O
and	O
wrote	O
that	O
the	O
game	O
"	O
has	O
limited	O
graphics	O
,	O
but	O
what	O
's	O
there	O
is	O
choice.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Storyline	O
,	O
graphics	O
and	O
text	B-Application
parser	I-Application
got	O
the	O
score	O
"	O
sehr	O
gut	O
"	O
(	O
very	O
good	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
