Black Island Adventure
Boldfield Limited Computing 1984
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Geoffrey Walker, Phil Collins
- Systems:
- Forth
- Platforms:
- Jupiter ACE
- Genres:
- Surreal, Underground
- Entered by:
- Alastair, dave, Gunness
- Added:
- 10-05-2010
- Edited:
- 24-04-2019
Synopsis
Parts one and two take place in a plague ridden town and subsequent journey on a ship, respectively.
Part three jettisons this altogether in favour of a retelling of Jabberwocky (!)
Part four starts as an underground adventure before returning to the town. Have you returned with the cure?
Notes
This four-part game was the only adventure ever created for the Forth-based UK computer Jupiter Ace.
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Interesting and more ambitious than most same era 8-bit counterparts on micros, the only original text adventure for the Jupiter Ace is also a decent one, despite the limitations of the platform. I particularly appreciate the way it wraps up all four parts and gets back to the beginning with a coherent narrative. Requires patience, especially with Part 3.
Artificial Intelligence once again proves how unreliable it is. If you try and look up the correct loading instructions for this, good ol' AI tells you that you must type "load BIA" exactly. Needless to say that doesn't work. You have to "load black island."
The co-author's name is given as Geoffrey Walker on the presentation screen and Geoffrey Waller on the cassette body photograph shown on the relevant page of The Jupiter Ace Archive.
This game and the 1980 mainframe behemoth Warp, both have you die by sailing off the edge of the world. I would agree with Exemptus that Black Island Adventure puts a lot of its contemporaries from this era to shame. I can see that parrot's got to go..