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Race For Midnight

Avant-Garde Creations 1981

Language:
English
Authors:
Steven Sacks
Platforms:
Apple II
Entered by:
billy7720, Strident
Added:
10-05-2010
Edited:
07-06-2022

Synopsis

Plot

A crude line drawn adventure game with RPG elements thrown in. It's your job to find the items to make and create a potion to keep you from changing into a werewolf. You must do this before the clock strikes midnight. You travel through crude line drawn mazes with strange looking creatures to kill that stand in your way and block you from you finishing your quest.

Notes

Steven was only about 14 when he wrote his two adventures; an article from the American Airlines inflight magazine was later reprinted in TODAY.

Corresponding in 2022, Steve wrote:

Those 2 were the only games I wrote. I was about 14, had been messing around with the Apple II I had begged my parents for and decided I could write a game like the ones I was buying. I wrote Chambers of Xenobia and sent a copy of the game to about 5 publishers. Avant-Garde responded and offered me a deal and I took it. I think Chambers sold only a couple hundred copies, but Race for Midnight I think sold more than 2000. The royalties meant I had plenty of spending money through high school after I paid my parents back for the Apple II.

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User Comments

webowl (25-04-2020 23:20)

The posted solution for this game has several direction errors, and omits picking up the rosemary. It is not possible to win the game following this solution exactly as written. These errors are probably a result of "file copying" data losses during the past 35 years.

The following changes correct this:
(1) add an extra "E" move after "GET LODESTONE"
(2) add an extra "S" move after "KILL MUMMY"
(3) delete "N,N,W,N" following "GET EYES"
(4) add the following walkthrough addition/change from "KILL RAT" to "GET ACONITE":

"KILL RAT, W, N, W, W, S, KILL WORM, DROP LODESTONE, GET ROSEMARY, N, GO DOOR, E, S, E, CHOP TAIL, DROP SWORD, GET TAIL, E, S, U, OPEN VIAL, DROP VIAL, GET ACONITE"

The game is winnable with these changes.