Once upon a time there was a young princess whose skin was white as snow, whose cheeks were as red as roses and whose hair was black as ebony. She was called Snow White and she lived with her stepmother who was beautiful and very vain. Each morning, she would look into her magic mirror and ask: ‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of us all?’. One day, instead of the usual reply, the mirror replied: ‘Queen thou art fairest in this hall, but Snow White is the fairest of us all’. The Queen was so angry that she called a servant and ordered him to take Snow White to the forest and kill her. The servant could not bring himself to do this dreadful deed and instead left her to fend for herself in the forest. After many hours in the forest, Snow White stumbled across a small cottage, where she found seven dwarfs. They took her in and looked after her. Imagine the Queen’s surprise when she asked the usual question of her magic mirror and got the reply that Snow White was still alive. She knew that her servant had deceived her and this made her very angry. Next morning, she set off for the cottage in the woods disguised as a poor beggar woman. When she arrived at the cottage, she knocked on the door and gave Snow White a poisoned apple.
That evening when the dwarfs arrived home and found Snow White on the floor, they took her and laid her in a crystal case in a forest glade, where she lies until this very day. You are the handsome prince who has set out on a perilous journey to revive the beautiful princess.
Appeared as a type-in in both MSX Adventure Programming and Adventure Programming on the Amstrad CPC 464 & 664, published by Argus Books in 1985.
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