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Micro Puzzle

Usborne Publishing 1984

Aka:
Micropuzzle, Micro Adventure
Language:
English
Authors:
Les Howarth
Platforms:
Apple II, BBC/Electron info, C64/128 info, Spectrum, TRS-80 info, VIC20
Genres:
Type-in info
Related:
1: Haunted House, 2: Mystery of Silver Mountain, The, 3: Island of Secrets, 4: Micro Puzzle, 5: Rendezvous
Entered by:
Alastair, Garry, Gunness, Strident
Added:
20-10-2010
Edited:
12-09-2022

Synopsis

Plot

What's happened?

Where are you?

Everything looks fairly normal, though you do feel a bit sick.

Better take a look round and see if you can find out what's going on.

Notes

Micro Puzzle (or Micropuzzle, the book uses both titles) may be found as a type-in game in Weird Computer Games (pp. 12–16), a free PDF of this book is available for download from Usborne Publishing (scroll to near the middle of the page).

As well as all the versions officially detailed in the book, conversions to other microcomputer BASICS exist.

The game has been ported to VZ200.

In 2019, a new version of this game (with graphics) was created for BBC Micro, by John Blythe of Rucksack Games.

An Inform version of the game was created by Gavin Lambert in 2020.

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micropuzzle_bbc.png Micro_Puzzle_2.png Micro_Puzzle_3.png MicroPuzzle.gif micro_adventure.png Micro_Puzzle_1.png

Rating

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User Comments

Richard Bos (15-10-2014 14:48)

The Spectrum version of this on World of Spectrum is buggy, but easily patched: in line 210, change i+i to i+1 . (There are other bugs, but they're in the designed, not in the entry job, and they don't prevent the game from being finished. You just have to be careful what you type.)

stevenjameshodgson (09-12-2018 00:00)

A quirky little game where you are a mouse.

Not very intuitive at all, with a frustratingly limited vocabulary - as one would expect from a book type-in game.

Dethmunk (04-01-2023 11:54)

Thanks for adding my version of the game to this entry. My version is called Micro Adventure. I loved this game, it was one of the first adventures I ever played as a kid as it was the first type-in game did. Loved the Usborne books.
Note: I did make some minor changes like not having to type 'remote-control' in full, LOL. That was annoying. I fixed a couple of little bugs too. I loved adding the graphics it, just to give it a bit of flashy presentation. :D