Aural Quest
Star Dreams 1984
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Mike E. Turner
- Systems:
- Quill, The/AdventureWriter
- Platforms:
- Spectrum
- Genres:
- Based on music
- Entered by:
- Dorothy, Gunness, Strident
- Added:
- 20-10-2010
- Edited:
- 13-04-2021
Synopsis
Plot
You are the Stranglers' Tour Manager. In the middle of decorating your flat you get a telephone call from CBS Records who want you to fly to five cities, Nice, New York, Stockholm, Tokyo and Brisbane, to collect the promoters' payments for the Stranglers Tour. You also have to find and bring back to London the four parts of a massive ear statue that the group use as part of their act. The payments must also be returned to London and taken to the accountant's office where you will get your next plane ticket.Notes
Originally included on the cassette release of The Stranglers Aural Sculpture album. Adventure author Mike Turner was an old school friend of the band's keyboard player Dave Greenfield, and had been best man at Dave's wedding.An unofficial conversion of the ZX Spectrum version is available for Atari 400/800; ported by devwebcl.
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- Solution
- by Dorothy
- Map (Spectrum)
- by Richard Bos
- Map
- by Exemptus
- Further Info:
- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
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- Search at World of Spectrum
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An odd one, this. I only found out it existed by listening to Aural Sculpture and looking it up on Wikipedia - and I still have no idea what the game has to do with the album, or even with the Stranglers' tour.
As well as gracing the album cover, the "Aural Sculpture" was a real (very large!) thing... probably an adventure in itself, shifting it around the place, judging from this blog... http://auralsculptors.blogspot.com/2012/05/ear-today-gone-tomorrow.html
I presume it was never neatly cut into pieces and distributed across four continents, though...
An odd adventure, not unlike "The Sandman Cometh" in style. Its redeeming virtue is being very easy to complete, and therefore short.