Thanks to the amazing recovery work of team member Csaba Virag, yet another full game has been recovered – this time a complete Hungarian graphic adventure game called The Mystic Zone.
In 1991, Hungarian magazine 576 KByte held a game developer competition, where a lot of entries were made. From this, The Mystic Zone was submitted and eventually shown in the October issue of the magazine, declaring that 576 KByte would later be publishing the game.
Unfortunately, they would never get to publish the game due to copyright issues. You see, the game was based heavily off an 1984 Fighting Fantasy-like book called “The Weird Zone”, released and written by Christian Black. In 1986, it was translated to Hungarian and released by the publisher “Móra” and was one of the first (if not THE first) Fighting Fantasy like-books released there.
At the start of 2025, Csaba got hold of disks from Zoltán Áprili (Zolee / Reds), who was the chief editor of 576 at the time. Within the disks, the full finished version of the game was found, covering two disk sides in total.
It’s a wonderful finding, and hopefully some day someone will decide to do an English translation. If you know Hungarian though – then enjoy this wonderful graphic adventure game and yet another title saved from obscurity.
Contributions: Csaba Virag
