The city of Tak, at the northern end of the Inland sea, is the greatest den of thieves, pirates and cut-throats that the civilized world has ever seen. In this city of scum, there are many pirates infamous for their ruthless greed, their daring raids and their countless skirmishes with death. One of these villains is you.
You are the captain of the pirate vessel Banshee. Together with your band of seasoned cut-throats, you must scourge the lands of the Inland Sea, searching for treasure. To complete your voyage successfully you have to locate and retrieve 20 treasures and take them to the top of the mountain on Nippur at the Southern end of the Inland Sea.
Although often co-credited for this game, Brian Howarth has confirmed that he was not part of it.
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This game also exists for the Commodore Plus/4 (a conversion of the C=64 version): http://plus4world.powweb.com/software/Seas_Of_Blood
Is there any evidence that this game was released for the BBC? I have a vague memory of someone saying it was planned but never released?
Lee.
Well, according to the cover and manual (http://www.mocagh.org/loadpage.php?getgame=seasofblood) there was a BBC version (back cover mentions a text-only Beeb version, and there are loading instructions in the manual), but of course, neither is hard proof.
Questionable design and tiresome to play. The combat mechanics are a bore, there are too few and too easy puzzles, and the geography is a sea of 210 empty locations only a few of which are actually explorable. To boot, it is never a good idea to have quasi-identically named objects wit a parser that does not disambiguate.