Jokers Wild
Phoenix Software [1] 
1984
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Nic Ford
- Platforms:
- Spectrum
- Genres:
- Time travel
- Entered by:
- Exemptus, Strident
- Added:
- 01-06-2020
- Edited:
- 25-09-2021
Synopsis
Plot
In 1972, intergalactic aliens have infiltrated Earth and are posing as funfair people, placing hypnotic playing cards in "bunko booths" to capture people's souls. You and Captain Phenix have been summoned back from the future to lock the cards in a security box. From there, you must find the Time Vortex that is holding our enemies in the space-time continuum of Earth 1972.Notes
This adventure appears as the second side of an arcade + adventure double tape, exactly like Dodge City (also from Phoenix Software). This one is a true text adventure, unlike the former. Completing four levels of the arcade game is necessary before the password to the adventure is disclosed. The arcade game is extremely hard, which is the reason this adventure has probably beenpractically unknown. Link to ZXDB entry (for reference): https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=2638.
Resources (Upload file)
- Solution
- by Exemptus
- Map
- by Exemptus
- Further Info:
- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
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- Search at World of Spectrum
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This game is part of the same series as "Dodge City" and others, a double tape with an arcade game and an adventure (ish). The concept didn't catch, in part because neither of the games is very good.