 The player also had to contend with an unpredictable pirate ally; it was the first text adventure game of the Adams series in which the player shared the adventure with a second character.The magic phrase to reach the island in this game, 'Say Yoho', was the name of a long-running column in "SoftSide" magazine by Scott Adams.The source code for "Pirate Adventure" was printed in the December 1980 issue of "BYTE", with an addendum in April 1981.