Windham Classics

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Windham Classics Corporation was a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software. The corporation was founded in 1984 and went defunct circa 1985/86 or later. The headquarters were in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Windham Classics published five adventure games. The games belonged to the genres of interactive fiction with graphics and point-and-click adventure game. They were based upon books for children. The game development was a part of Spinnakers marketing strategy in the adventure game market in the 1980s: Target groups of Windham Classic adventures were children players and target groups of Telarium, another Spinnaker subsidiary corporation, were grown-up players.^[1]

• Below the Root, 1984 (developed in corporation with Zilpha Keatley Snyder, based upon her novel Below the Root)
• Swiss Family Robinson, 1984 (based upon the novel The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss)
• The Wizard of Oz, 1985 (based upon the novels The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum)
• Alice in Wonderland, 1985 (based upon the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll)
• Treasure Island, 1985 (based upon the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson).

The adventure game Robin Hood was announced, but not published.^[2]

The Windham Classics adventures were praised for their text quality and their detailed graphics.^[3] The special feature of Windham Classics adventures was the appropriate gameplay for children. The gameplay was easier than the gameplay in other adventures. The combination of text, graphics, a nonviolent storyline and appropriate interactive opportunities assisted the children's involvement and participation in the plot.^[4]

• Windham Classics at MobyGames
• Windham Classics at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History by Howard Feldman
• Telarium – Windham Classics at Adventureland by Hans Persson and Stefan Meier

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