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.
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
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 bw or light green and
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 building
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
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 numbers
