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Intercept

Michael D. Wile 1981

Language:
English
Authors:
Michael D. Wile
Platforms:
PC info
Entered by:
iamaran, Strident
Added:
11-05-2020
Edited:
13-02-2022

Synopsis

Plot

Your mission is to recover the stolen pages containing a top secret rocket formula to Mission Headquarters.

Notes

Features a particularly obtuse parser.

The game is copyrighted 1981 on the introductory screen; a reference to an earlier version? See also Mutant Invasion by the same author, which has a 1982 copyright date. Perhaps the game was developed originally for TRS-80; like the author's Adventure International-published game.

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Strident (13-02-2022 16:44)

Both this and Mutant Invasion seem to have their origins in earlier games, given the 1981 and 1982 copyrights. Perhaps TRS-80 titles? Michael's Merlin's Treasure was published for the TRS-80 by Adventure International.

Exemptus (13-02-2022 18:05)

Inconclusive. My copy is marked as version 1.2, but its dating is doubtful. The executable looks assembled with an early version of MASM, which did exist since October 1981. It is possible (even if unlikely) that this is a PC original, coded from scratch. Unless anyone comes across evidence of prior art, we can only guess.

Strident (13-02-2022 19:09)

I don't for one second think that the PC version itself dates from 1981. But the fact that it has a 1981 copyright date, and another of his games has a 1982/87 copyright date, and he also had a commercial release in 82/83 suggests that he probably produced a TRS-80 version of Intercept in '81.

I'm guessing it's a 1987 date for the PC version, just like Mutant Invasion. They're obviously programmed in the same way and they begin to crop up in shareware catalogues regularly from about '88 onwards.