Arcade / Arcade - Maze · 1983

Caves of Ice

Published by Compute!

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eppy2000 — 7 Oct 2007
This game has particular nostalgia for one reason. It was the very first game I typed in (not counting that "I'm guessing a number between 1 and 100," which everyone did)! I think I must have spent two or three days entering the BASIC code and saving it on my 410 recorder. This game always takes me back to the summer of 1983. Anyway, as a first person maze, it was fun. Although the exit was always a random factor, after a few times I was able to figure out a certain pattern and it became too easy to win afterwards. There was a timer to tell you how long it took to complete the game. But I felt you should've been timed if you didn't get out in time (e.g., you would freeze to death at some point). I think the feature might have been on the VIC-20 version.