Pen and the Dark, The
Mosaic Publishing 
1984
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Keith D Campbell
- Systems:
- BASIC
- Platforms:
- BBC/Electron , C64/128 , Spectrum
- Genres:
- Based on literature , Science fiction
- Related:
- Bookware [1: Pen and the Dark, The, 2: Width of the World, The, 3: Saga of Erik the Viking, The, 4: Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World, The, 5: Nomad of Time, The, 6: Snow Queen, The, 7: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾, The, 8: Archers, The, 9: Twice Shy, 10: Raffles, 11: Alice, 12: Amulet, The]
- Entered by:
- dave, Gunness
- Added:
- 10-05-2010
- Edited:
- 22-02-2019
Synopsis
Notes
Based on the eponymous short story from the collection The Unorthodox Engineers by Colin Capp.A Dragon version was almost ready but never released due to the platform's lack of sales.
A sequel, The Subways of Tazoo, was planned but scrapped.
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This adventure is unorthodox, like the engineers it depicts, but not in a good way. Too coarsely coded and ill-balanced. It is arguably a single-problem task, which is so long-winded to solve that it becomes tedious very quickly. The existing walkthrough is just a descriptive sketch of actions and is missing some parts, so I have written a literal one.