Nine Princes in Amber
Telarium 
1985
- Language:
- English
- Systems:
- SAL
- Platforms:
- Apple II, Atari ST, C64/128 , PC
- Genres:
- Based on literature , Fantasy, misc.
- Entered by:
- Alex, dave, Gunness, Strident
- Added:
- 04-09-2010
- Edited:
- 19-05-2022
Synopsis
Plot
You wake up in a hospital and doesn't have a clue who you are or why you are there. You slowly discover that you are a prince of the realm Amber, placed in exile on Earth.Notes
Based on the first two novels in Roger Zelazny's 10-volume Amber series. The game's puzzles rely heavily on dialogue.Also available in Spanish.
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- Solution (C64/128)
- by Dorothy
- Map
- by Exemptus
- Further Info:
- Search at Atari Legend
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- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
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I've enjoyed the Amber series a great deal (well, the first 5-novel cycle, anyway), so I should enjoy the game a lot.
There is much to like here - the text is very well-written - but the fact that it's nearly impossible to know whether you've done everything you needed to know leads to a lot of backtracking. On top of that, many puzzles are dialogue based, which Telarium's parser doesn't always handle very well.
This disconcerting game uses dialogue-based puzzles and completely dispenses with movement: you go sequentially through a series of scenes which you have to negotiate. The backstory is far better than the game, which feels a bit devoid of adventure elements. Not really the highest point of the Telarium series.