External Links
- mysterious_z6.zip *
To play, you can download mysterious_z6.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - mysterious_inform.zip *
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To play, you can download mysterious_inform.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - mystsoft.zip *
To play, you can download mystsoft.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - C64adv.zip *
To play, you can download C64adv.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - atari8gm.zip *
To play, you can download atari8gm.zip, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. - mysterious.tar.gz
To play, you can download mysterious.tar.gz, unzip it, and run the game in an interpreter program - refer to the game's documentation for details. (The file is compressed with the Unix-style .tar.gz "tarball" format. Free unpacking tools are available for most platforms.)
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About the Story
Your mission is to recover the Golden Baton, a priceless artefact that holds within it a kind of life force that maintains the equilibrium between good and evil. Stolen from the Palace of King Ferrenuil, the kingdom is already beginning to feel the effects of drought and pestilence.
[--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
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1 Off-Site Review
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The Golden Baton
The Adventures covered in the last three issues could only be played on a disk based system. I don't want cassette owners feeling left out of the fun of Adventuring, so this issue we'll take a look at a series of Adventures available on cassette. What makes them all the more interesting for most of you is that they are written and produced in the United Kingdom! I'm referring, of course, to Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures.
Brian Howarth had been playing Dungeons and Dragons for some years before being introduced to computer Adventures by a TV program called The Adventure Game. When he realised the potential for computer moderated Adventures, he raced out and bought the first computer he could find. Unfortunately, this happened to be a TRS-80, but we can't really hold that against him, as the Atari wasn't available at the time.
Howarth became obsessed with Scott Adams' Adventures before trying to write his own. He started writing an Adventure in BASIC, but concluded that it couldn't be done. We can probably put this down to inexperience, as many others (including Scott Adams himself) have proven him wrong. Nevertheless, he started learning machine language and after six months of excitement and frustration, he finished his first machine language Adventure. It was called The Golden Baton and made its first appearance in the Molimerx catalogue in 1981.
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Game Details
Current Version: Unknown
License: Former commercial
Development System: Inform 6
Baf's Guide ID: 538
| IFIDs: | ZCODE-1-041209-E04A |
| ZCODE-1-980406-24B6 | |
| 186EFEC3-B22E-49AF-B751-6B84F04B6957 |
