You are lost, on Hallowe'en Night!
And the only way out of an endless back alley is through a decrepid old house known only to few as Mordred Manor.
Are you prepared, in the course of your adventures, to deal with an insane maestro, a sleepy skeleton, a mad scientist and his strangely familiar creation, and a bizarre chef, who would be delighted to have you for dinner...once you are properly cooked, of course.
Mordred Manor awaits. Do you dare enter?
Although listed here originally with a 1991 date, this adventure (and the other four in the series) date to at least as early as 1988 as they are advertised in the October, November & December 1988 issues of Compute! magazine (e.g. issue 103). Plover.net and several other IF sites list the game as dating from 1987, which seems reasonable.
Pete Gardner, the author writes:
Mordred Manor is the first of a series of four text adventure games I wrote for MindMeld Software, a company I started back in the mid-eighties. It was published under Signature Software, another company I was involved in. The titles of the remaining games were The Funhouse, The Ruby of Ordeb, and The Trollmaster’s Castle.
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