Monster Rally
Norell Data Systems 
1983
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Charles A. Crayne , Dian Crayne
- Platforms:
- PC
- Entered by:
- Canalboy, Strident
- Added:
- 19-02-2022
- Edited:
- 01-11-2024
Synopsis
Plot
Can you survive Monster Rally? Visit the strange little town of Arnheim and find out. Wander through nearly three hundred rooms filled with excitement, fun, danger.Arnheim has long been the site of strange happenings and stranger rumours. The people are usually friendly, but they have an odd habit of looking over their shoulders, especially after dark.
Notes
This is one of several adventures that are listed as being written by Dian Crayne. Dian's games were originally published by Norell Data Systems. Her article, on writing adventure games, appeared in PC magazine, Volume 2 Number 4, September 1983, pp.266-276.The authorship of this program is unclear and it appears it may not have been authored by Dian Crayne after all. The opening sequence claims the program and script were developed by Charles A. Crayne.
This game can be downloaded via a .zip file from the late Charles Crayne's website.
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[+] Users currently playing this game
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I stumbled across this game on Charles A. Crayne's old web site at web.archive.org/web/20090217124344/http://www.pacificsites.com/~ccrayne/charles.html.
The file name is monster.zip.
It seems to have been written solely (or at least partly) by himself.
There is a manual included which he penned on 22nd June 2006, that is 23 years after the original game was written.
The game is the longest of all the series (exactly 258 rooms) but too buggy for comfort, which results in a below-5 rating for me. It *can* be completed, but it is touchy. Plenty of puzzles, mazes, and treasures to gather, but the only known implementation at this time is a beta version, and it shows. It is not particularly difficult in terms of problems, though the random quirks can tax the player's patience.
I uploaded the map of Monster Rally and the game many months ago. It is still queued together with a veritable caravanserai of other files.