Adventure A: Planet of Death
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| Developer(s) | Artic Computing |
| Publisher(s) | Artic Computing |
| Designer(s) | Richard Turner Chris A. Thornton[1] |
| Platform(s) | ZX81, ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC |
| Release | 1981: ZX80 / 81 1982: Spectrum 1984: C64 1985: Amstrad CPC |
| Genre(s) | Interactive fiction |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Adventure A: Planet of Death is a text adventure from Artic Computing released for the Sinclair ZX81 (and 4K ZX80) in 1981.[1] It was also released for the ZX Spectrum in 1982, Commodore 64 in 1984, and Amstrad CPC in 1985. A version for Android was released in January 2019 and is available on the Google Play Store.
The game was followed by Adventures B, C, D, E, F, G, and H.[2]
Gameplay[]
The player is stranded on an alien planet. The aim is to escape from this planet by finding his or her captured and disabled spaceship. The player communicates with the program by typing instructions into a simple verb-noun parser.
Reception[]
Crash magazine wrote that the game was "good value", complimenting its tone as "atmospheric" and "chilling".[3]
References[]
- ^ a b A Planet of Death at SpectrumComputing.co.uk
- ^ "Artic Computing". adventure.if-legends.org. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
- ^ "World of Spectrum - Crash-1". World of Spectrum. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
External links[]
- Adventure A: Planet of Death in the Interactive Fiction Database
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- 1980s interactive fiction
- 1981 video games
- Amstrad CPC games
- Commodore 64 games
- Video games developed in the United Kingdom
- Video games set on fictional planets
- ZX Spectrum games
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