Adventure of the Week: Michael Crichton’s Amazon (1984)

But no, it’s true — back in 1984, Trillium/Telarium Software published
Amazon, an epic adventure game written by speculative fiction novelist Michael Crichton, creator of
Westworld and
Jurassic Park, among many others. The game’s setup bears significant plot resemblances to Crichton’s 1980 novel
Congo, with the intelligent great apes replaced by native Huni warriors, and communicative simian Amy replaced by a talking parrot named Paco. I was glad I had the parrot along at this point — fortunately the parser doesn’t actually recognize many WRONG gestures, but Paco helpfully told me to
SMILE, AMIGO:

The third act of the game becomes fairly challenging and/or frustrating, with lots of ways to die (but thankfully few dead ends requiring backtracking to address earlier mistakes.)

Source: gamingafter40.blogspot.com