4K Adventure

by John Metcalf

1995
Fantasy
Assembly language

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- Edo, March 12, 2022

- Arrowhead12 (Edmonton, Alberta), September 18, 2020

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Old-School Pre-Infocom Style Text Adventure, April 4, 2016
by PDearmore (Central New York)

Described as "ideal for a complete beginner providing they
examine everything" in the Readme. The puzzles are of the "look at x, find y, use it on z" variety.

This is really not bad for a game developed from scratch in Assembly. Yeah, I don't like that the "unknown input" message and the "item has no description message" are the same, and there are a few other minor flaws like this, but not bad, considering.

The game captures the spirit of the pre-Infocom text adventures very well--but it does feel updated somewhat. No mazes, and I wasn't dying without warning at every turn. I ended up with a score of 72--not sure what the max is. I suspect there is something you can do with the fungus to increase your score, but I'm not sure what it is. Anyway, I reached the conclusion of the game, so I'm happy. Also, just for the heck of it, I ran a few of the other .COM files in DOSBox--a fun little addition to the game. This one is worth checking out if you have a few minutes free some day.

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- Sobol (Russia), September 12, 2014 (last edited on July 26, 2016)

- Egas, August 4, 2013

- dixonqu (New York, NY), August 14, 2010 (last edited on August 15, 2010)


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