It’s a game that suffers too much from sheer frustration, which many of these games from the early days of text adventures do. Puzzles that expect something that the user couldn’t possibly know about, dying from lack of food or water after a strict number of moves
As promised at the end of the last adventure post, we’re looking today at the graphics version of Adventureland by Adventure International, which came out some 4 years after the text only game. I’m also going to try a new format which may or may not prevail – influenced somewhat by Sprite Castle, I’m going … Read more
Adventure Without A Name, a text-based adventure game. Although limited in parsing, it offers a quick, simple quest to retrieve gold from a dragon for a prince, taking around 15 minutes to complete.
Going to sneak this one in and hope nobody notices. It should have come before Adventure Quest as it is (just about) a published game, albeit little known about. Ray Hoffmeister coded this game (an appropriately beery retro name!) in CBM BASIC and it’s the only one attributed to him on Gamebase 64, but it … Read more
Right, where was I? Oh yes, just finished up escaping from Cleopatra’s Pyramid, had a little break (19 months), got myself a brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate, had a nice cup of tea and thought it was about time to get back in the saddle. As it happens we’re on to one of the proper … Read more