Humbug (video game)
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Humbug | |
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Developer(s) | Graham Cluley |
Publisher(s) | Self-published |
Platform(s) | DOS |
Release | 1990 |
Genre(s) | Interactive fiction |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Humbug is a text adventure written and self-published by British programmer Graham Cluley in 1990.
Summary[]
The game is set at Christmas, and features the character of Sidney Widdershins as he arrives as his Grandad's mansion for the winter school holidays.
Characters in the game include dentist Jasper Slake (Grandad's next door neighbour, and the villain of the piece), two Vikings, a fairy, a gravedigger, a computer hacker called Alex, a fireman called Dennis, Horace the gardener, and a camp clockwork shark called Kevin.
The game, which was written in Turbo Pascal, was distributed as shareware and appeared on a number of British magazine cover disks, including PC Plus magazine. Upon registration Cluley offered players a version of the game incorporating online hints and a printed map.
The game has now been placed in the public domain and is available, with the hints and map, as a free download from Cluley's website.
Cluley had previously written another text adventure game called Jacaranda Jim.
Reception[]
In 1991, Theo Clarke's review of Humbug in Strategy Plus magazine described it as the "most entertaining text adventure that I have played since Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy back in 1984".[1]
References[]
- ^ "Humbug: Quiet Eccentricity", Strategy Plus, 1991
External links[]
- 1990 video games
- Christmas video games
- DOS games
- DOS-only games
- 1990s interactive fiction
- Video games developed in the United Kingdom
- Shareware
- Adventure game stubs