Atari 8-bit - Synapse Software - 1984

Mindwheel

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Genre: Adventure - Text
Year: 1984
Language: Machine Language
Publisher: Synapse Software
Controls: Keyboard
Developer: —
Players: 1
Country
Programmer(s): Hales, Steve / Mataga, William
License: Commercial
Graphic Artist(s): —
Medium
Sound: —
Rarity: 7
Cover Artist(s): —
Serial: ATDSK-2228
Dump: Download

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

The program for download is not modified, i.e. still with password protection in order to preserve the full originality of the game. The password asked for can be found on the respective instruction/book page supplied below. Blank instruction pages (meant to serve as player's diary) are not displayed.

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Disk 1

INSTRUCTIONS (61)

ADS (1)

CATALOGS (1)

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Disk 1

VOTES / STATISTICS

Rating7.7/10

Hits: 9,176
Downloads: 1,984
Votes: 35

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COMMENTS (2)

Auntie Pastie10 Apr 2011
Interestingly, it appears that this game was written by Steve "Fort Apocalypse" Hales and William "Shamus" Mataga... not apparently their typical style of game at all then!
eppy20009 Oct 2007
I remember reading early previews of this in Antic magazine. It was apparently meant to compete with Infocom's large dominance in the text game market. If I remember right, it was billed as being the next generation of text adventures, with a large encompassing story and an excellent parser. Antic gave it a lot of ecstatic praise. Unfortunately, when the final product was released, so much of it was stripped down for the mass home market, the review was utterly disappointing. The original work-in-progress used two disk drives, something most people didn't have in those days! And not everyone had the souped-up systems that the programmers had, so a lot of the game's scope and sophistication was unfortunately whittled down.