Custerd's Quest

Alpha-Omega Software 1986

Language:: English
Authors:: Craig Richard Davies
Systems:: Quill, The/AdventureWriter
Platforms:: Spectrum
Genres:: Fantasy, misc., Humour
Entered by:: Gunness, Sudders
Added:: 10-05-2010
Edited:: 01-09-2016

Synopsis

Plot

Custerd's Quest is a Quilled spoof adventure full of magic and humour. It tells the tale of an evil necromancer who has polluted the land causing untold chaos. The King is far too busy to deal with the problem himself, so he decrees that a knight should undertake the task.
Somebody, probably one of your 'friends' mentions your name, Sir Coward de Custerd and you get lumbered with the job. You must journey to the home of the evil necromancer - Tower Doom - beginning in the Great Hall of your own home, Castle Custerd. During your humourous and dangerous journey you must find several hidden objects.

Notes

"There were in fact, 2 versions of Custerd's Quest. The first, written in the summer of 1986, was accepted and released by Alpha Omega, the then budget arm of the software company CRL. Half a year later, AO relaunched themselves as the Power House, and relaunched their games with new packaging. Craig Davies took the opportunity to revise Custerd, using the Quill's text compressor (The Press) which had been released in the meantime. The Power House version thus contained about 10k more text, and is the superior." (from Adventureland)

Comes with a free audio track by H.E.X on the B-side, quite a cute little tune and the drum machine and effects are very typical of the 80s