Amazon

Amazon is a 1984 illustrated text adventure released on the Telarium label (the interactive-fiction imprint of Trillium/Spinnaker), which specialized in games built around well-known authors. This one was based on a story by Michael Crichton, the bestselling writer behind Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, and it sends the player on an expedition into the South American rainforest in search of a lost jungle civilization. Like Telarium's other titles, it pairs a parser-driven text adventure with static illustrations to set each scene.

My memory of the exact puzzles here is limited, so I'll stick to what's solid. Amazon is representative of the brief mid-80s moment when publishers tried to marry famous novelists with computer games, betting that literary names would sell interactive fiction. It's a genuine period piece, of most interest today to collectors of the genre and to anyone curious about Crichton's unexpected detour into game writing.