Haunted House
Usborne Publishing 1983
- Aka:
- Waverton Castle
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Jenny Tyler, Les Howarth
- Systems:
- BASIC
- Platforms:
- Apple II, BBC/Electron , Dragon 32/64 , Microbee , Oric/Atmos, PET, Spectrum, TRS-80 , TRS-80 CoCo, VIC20, ZX81
- Genres:
- Treasure hunt, Type-in
- Related:
- 1: Haunted House, 2: Mystery of Silver Mountain, The, 3: Island of Secrets, 4: Micro Puzzle, 5: Rendezvous
- Entered by:
- Alastair, dave, Garry, Gunness, iamaran, Strident
- Added:
- 02-10-2010
- Edited:
- 26-04-2022
Synopsis
Plot
A weird house stands on the edge of a sheer cliff. Its strange twisted turrets looming out of an always gloomy sky. No wall seems straight, no corner a right-angle. Not surprisingly no one lives there - well no human that is.People say the richest man in the world spent his last days there. Strangely, no one ever saw his body...
You have decided to learn more about this mysterious building, perhaps it contains some abandoned treasures that will reward your curiosity.
Notes
Haunted House may be found as a type-in game in Write Your Own Adventure Programs pp. 33–37, a free PDF of this book is available for download from Usborne Publishing (scroll to near the middle of the page).The full game covered most of the listed platforms, but a special cut-down version of the game was included for the ZX81.
John Elliot maintains a web page about this game which includes the original Microsoft BASIC version (as well as versions for IBM Disk BASIC and Cassette BASIC), the typed-in ZX Spectrum & ZX81 program, and ports to C and Inform.
Marc Lepage ported the game to Lua and Scratch.
In 2019, the original Usborne game was ported to the TRS-80 MC-10 by Jim Gerrie.
The game Haunted Manor, for VIC-20, appears to have been largely based on the original Usborne adventure.
The game Waverton Castle on the Microbee is an enhanced version of this game.
Resources (Upload file)
- Solution
- by Dorothy
- Solution
- by iamaran
- Map
- by Dom
- Further Info:
- Search at Complete BBC Games Archive
- Search at Curtis Boyle's CoCo site
- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
- Search at Oric Site
- Search at Spectrum Computing
- Search at The Dragon Archive
- Search at The Tipshop
- Search at World of Spectrum
- Search at ZX81 Collection
[+] Users who have solved this game
[+] Users currently playing this game
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I still have the book for this adventure, including my pencil notes for converting it to the standard Sharp MZ-700 BASIC.
You can play the original here: http://bbcmicro.co.uk//game.php?id=2123
or the expanded version here: http://bbcmicro.co.uk//game.php?id=2124
The version at http://bbcmicro.co.uk//game.php?id=2123 seems to have a couple of bugs:
- I didn't encounter the ghosts
- If you use the verb "SCORE" after picking up all the treasure, the game crashes "Mistake at line 1570"
Really good game. The Vic20 worked flawlessly.
You can download this port needed a 16k memory extension here: http://www.vic20listings.freeolamail.com/book_writeownadv.html#hh