In order to complete the game, the player has to collect the thirteen lost artifacts: A statue of Paul Bunyan's blue ox, Babe, jeweled fruit, golden fish, a dragon's egg, a golden net, a magic carpet, a diamond necklace, a diamond bracelet, a pot of rubies, "royal honey", a crown, a magic mirror, and a "firestone".

[8] The source code for Adventureland was published in SoftSide magazine in 1980[9] and the database format was subsequently used in other interpreters such as Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures series.

[10] Adventureland was written for the TRS-80, then ported to other systems, most of which didn't exist in 1978: Apple II, Atari 8-bit computers, TI-99/4A, PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, IBM PC, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Dragon 32/64, and Exidy Sorcerer.

[12][13] Mark Herro for Dragon commented that "I can't recommend ANY version of Scott Adams' Adventure series highly enough.

"[8] British print magazine Micro Adventurer praised the VIC-20 version was released as a cartridge as the loading times would be too long otherwise.