Golden Baton, The
Channel 8 Software 
, Digital Fantasia , Molimerx 1981
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Brian Howarth
- Systems:
- SAGA
- Platforms:
- Atari 400/800, BBC/Electron , C16/Plus4, C64/128 , Dragon 32/64 , Oric/Atmos, PC , Spectrum, TRS-80 , VIC20
- Genres:
- Fantasy, misc.
- Related:
- Mysterious Adventures [1: Golden Baton, The, 2: Time Machine, The, 3: Arrow of Death Part 1, 4: Arrow of Death Part 2, 5: Escape From Pulsar 7, 6: Circus, 7: Feasibility Experiment, 8: Wizard of Akyrz, The, 9: Perseus & Andromeda, 10: Ten Little Indians, 11: Waxworks, 12: Midwinter, 13: After the Fire, 14: Beyond the Infinite, 15: Ghost of Mars, The]
- Entered by:
- Alastair, dave, Gunness, iamaran, Strident, WhenIWasCruel
- Added:
- 10-05-2010
- Edited:
- 12-07-2020
Synopsis
Your mission is to recover the Golden Baton, a priceless artefact that holds within it a kind of life force that maintains the equilibrium between good and evil. Stolen from the Palace of King Ferrenuil, the kingdom is already beginning to feel the effects of drought and pestilence.
Notes
The original TRS-80 version, and slightly later IBM PC port, was published by Molimerx.
An initial cut-down, 8K version for Vic 20 was published in 1982 by Leisuronics (Leisuresoft).
To obtain graphics on a Dragon requires the computer to be in Dragon 64 mode, otherwise the game is text only.
Resources (Upload file)
- Solution
- by Gunness
- Map
- by zjuric
- Map
- by Sudders
- Map
- by nimusi
- Hints
- by Ken Hart
- Review
- by Sudders
- Further Info:
- Search at Atari 8-bit Forever
- Search at Atari Mania
- Search at Complete BBC Games Archive
- Search at Gamebase64
- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
- Search at Oric Site
- Search at Plus/4 World
- Search at Spectrum Computing
- Search at The Dragon Archive
- Search at The Tipshop
- Search at World of Spectrum
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Incredible easy compared to almost all other adventures. Recommended for first timers into the txt based gaming world. Still fun, as they all :)
Short and fun, but a tad arbitrary at times. Howarth's terse style (one of the best imitators of Scott Adams, if not the best) ended up becoming an acquired taste for me.