Yet another game advertised by Goldstar in Your Computer magazine 1984. This was another text adventure which sadly never was! It is currently missing sadly. It could be a case that the game just hasn’t turned up yet, or it … Continue reading →
The Crystal Search was a game written by Iain Black of Zzap64.co.uk fame. It was recently brought to our attention by Hedning after a Genesis Project crack was made. In terms of the game, Iain describes it as follows: "My … Continue reading →
As we were looking into The Mermaid and the Crown, we chanced across a series of unreleased titles from Mountain Valley Software that was ran by Brian J Betts during the early-mid 1980s. This was one of five titles in … Continue reading →
When the C64 was dying out commercially, Jon Wells was trying to flood the C64 with new releases. One of his ideas was to take the entire back catalogue of Clive Wilson adventure titles and update them with new graphics, … Continue reading →
“As good a danger-filled dungeon as you could wish to expire in” – Personal Computer News describes The Greedy Dwarf. The game was a text adventure that apparently had a very powerful command structure. It seems that the primary releases … Continue reading →
A slightly naughty attempt at cashing in on the Douglas Adams title of the same name, Supersoft didn’t get very far when they were issued with a lawsuit to prevent a proper release of the game. Eventually, the game had … Continue reading →
Our next entry into the archive come thanks to Gareth Pitchford, who flagged up this currently missing text adventure game by Dean Hodgson and Steve Walsh. The game was reportedly published Satchel, who were a software arm of Angle Park … Continue reading →
When the C64 was dying out commercially, Jon Wells was trying to flood the C64 with new releases. One of his ideas was to take the entire back catalogue of Clive Wilson adventure titles and update them with new graphics, … Continue reading →
It is thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni and BloodyCactus for bringing this game to our attention, and which may have been floating around for quite some time under our noses. The Mermaid and the Crown was a graphical text adventure produced … Continue reading →
A very quick entry, and probably not one to take too seriously! This was mentioned by a chap called Duncan Lyons from Stockport back in Issue 20 of Commodore Format. He wrote in to the letters pages saying that he … Continue reading →
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