The Galleon by Robert Olessak profile Episode 1 of The Galleon Fantasy, Humor, Surreal 1993 Web Site

About the Story

One of the largest, longest and most difficult text adventure games ever made. You must control two characters at the same time in a surrealistic fantasy world. (If you need more information about the Hungarian original, please rather click over to that (see here: A gálya); there are much more further links and downloads, reviews etc. over there.)

The main scene is a closed island kingdom called Athar, isolated from the outside world for centuries. Every ship trying to sail over the sea is lost since then. But one day the wreckage of a strange, foreign ship appears by the shore without the crew (but loaded with a lot of unknown, modern instruments), totally disturbing the life. You have got two characters to play at once: Tongrak the barbarian, and Raernon the self-styled, young magician, who are brothers, and they have to save their country, for preventing a threatening civil war. They need to find a mythical and ancient ship - The Galleon - and disembark towards the outer ocean, searching for the other world. (It is a satyric and parodistic, absurd fantasy - with an intelligent parser and a world-modelling system.)

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