Hounds of Hell
Adventure Workshop, The 
, WoW Software 1991
- Aka:
- Hounds from Hell, The
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Peter Clark
- Systems:
- ACE , PAW
- Platforms:
- Amstrad CPC , PC , Spectrum
- Genres:
- Crime, Horror
- Entered by:
- Garry, Gunness, Strident, Sudders, WhenIWasCruel
- Added:
- 10-05-2010
- Edited:
- 09-10-2022
Synopsis
You are Jack Williams, Chief Crime Reporter on the Daily News, one of the more popular daily newspapers. Over the last six months there has been a spate of unsolved kidnappings in the West of England. You convince your Editor that a trip to the West Country might uncover the reasons behind the kidnappings and might reveal the culprits. You set out in your car and, after several hours driving, arrive on the edge of Dartmoor. It is late and a fog is beginning to come down. You decide to stop before it gets to late as you don't want to become lost on the moor.
Notes
The original Amstrad version was produced with the PAW and published by WoW Software.
The Spectrum port was PAWed by Jonathan Scott and sold by The Adventure Workshop.
A later PC conversion was created using ACE and was used as the Megapoints Competition game in 2003 at the UK Adventurer's Convention. The ACE version was called 'The Hounds from Hell', whereas the earlier versions were called 'Hounds of Hell', although references to the title of the ACE version on various sites are not consistent.
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- Further Info:
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They say that life is full of coincidences. After finally solving a puzzle in Blood Of The Mutineers by dint of an incredibly contrived parser conceit I was sure I would never come across the same scenario again. A few days afterwards and this game requires the exact same command to escape a building.
I think this is another Amstrad version that is fatally bugged. I had my suspicions when the phial that you receive in the hotel has disappeared when you are in the barn. It also appears to be impossible to enter the shed through the obvious entrance. To check this I tried the Spectrum version from scratch and 1) you wake up in the barn with the phial and 2) you can enter the shed. There is nothing like a bit of playtesting eh?
Stop Press. The Amstrad version on the CPC-Power web site behaves correctly.
Part Two doesn't seem to work withing the chosen emulator. I have finished Part One, saved the game file and entered the file name at the start of Part Two. ZXSpin 0.7 hangs at this point.