Adventure / Adventure - Text · 1984

Mindwheel

Published by Synapse Software

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Information

Genre: Adventure - Text
Language: Machine Language
Controls: Keyboard
Players: 1
Programmer(s): Hales, Steve, Mataga, William
Year: 1984
Publisher: Synapse Software
Country: USA
License: Commercial
Medium: Disk
Rarity: 7
Serial: ATDSK-2228

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.7/10 · Votes: 35 · Downloads: 1,984 · Hits: 9,176

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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Instructions (61)

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Comments (2)

Auntie Pastie — 10 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!
eppy2000 — 9 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.