Re: [SWCollect] What's the name of this game?

2002-03-01 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Christopher Forman boldly stated: > >The series was never finished because AI went bankrupt in 1984. Check my >links page, one of the sites has the unfinished X-Men code for download. Found the link, but it's giving "Connection Refused" at the moment. 8( >Would you happen to have the exact numb

Re: [SWCollect] What's the name of this game?

2002-03-01 Thread Karl Kuras
Can't say I know much about this game, although the reference to the camera sorta rings of the Spiderman adventure (Peter Parker being a photographer and all). As for the general idea of text adventures in the UK back in the early to mid 80's, yes they were VERY popular. Mainly because they were

Re: [SWCollect] What's the name of this game?

2002-03-01 Thread Christopher Forman
> There was also an accompanying series of comic books. It was supposed > to last for 12 issues/games, but apparently they didn't sell or > something. The fourth story, featuring the X-Men, was eventually > printed in an issue of MARVEL FANFARE. (Apparently the story had been > completed before

Re: [SWCollect] What's the name of this game?

2002-03-01 Thread Jim Leonard
"Lee K. Seitz" wrote: > > It's been a long time and I don't remember much, but could this be a > port of the Questprobe: Spider-Man game by Scott Adams? (The guy > with the camera would be Peter Parker.) Definitely not, the Questprobe: Spider-man starts you out *as* Spider-Man inside a buildin

Re: [SWCollect] What's the name of this game?

2002-03-01 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Pedro Quaresma boldly stated: > >Hello. I hope you all can help me again remembering the name of this game. > >It was a text adventure for the Sinclair Spectrum. The screen was divided >in upper (images) and lower (text/parser) halves. The graphics were >monochromatic (either b&w or light green an

Re: [SWCollect] What's the name of this game?

2002-03-01 Thread Pedro Quaresma
C.E. Forman wrote: >I'm afraid I'm drawing a blank on this one... Do you have any idea who >might have published it? Not really :( I'm pretty sure I could recognize the title if I'd see a list of walkthroughs or something. >There was definitely an explosion of one-person adventure shops in the

Re: [SWCollect] What's the name of this game?

2002-03-01 Thread C.E. Forman
I'm afraid I'm drawing a blank on this one... Do you have any idea who might have published it? There was definitely an explosion of one-person adventure shops in the U.K. in the early 1980s, thanks to the release of a text-adventure authoring program called The Quill. ---

[SWCollect] What's the name of this game?

2002-03-01 Thread Pedro Quaresma
Hello. I hope you all can help me again remembering the name of this game. It was a text adventure for the Sinclair Spectrum. The screen was divided in upper (images) and lower (text/parser) halves. The graphics were monochromatic (either b&w or light green and black) and several images were sho