Micro Puzzle
Usborne Publishing 1984
- Aka:
- Micropuzzle, Micro Adventure
- Language:
- English
- Authors:
- Les Howarth
- Systems:
- BASIC
- Platforms:
- Apple II, BBC/Electron , C64/128 , Spectrum, TRS-80 , VIC20
- Genres:
- Type-in
- Related:
- 1: Haunted House, 2: Mystery of Silver Mountain, The, 3: Island of Secrets, 4: Micro Puzzle, 5: Rendezvous
- Entered by:
- Alastair, Garry, Gunness, Strident
- Added:
- 20-10-2010
- Edited:
- 12-09-2022
Synopsis
Plot
What's happened?Where are you?
Everything looks fairly normal, though you do feel a bit sick.
Better take a look round and see if you can find out what's going on.
Notes
Micro Puzzle (or Micropuzzle, the book uses both titles) may be found as a type-in game in Weird Computer Games (pp. 12–16), a free PDF of this book is available for download from Usborne Publishing (scroll to near the middle of the page).As well as all the versions officially detailed in the book, conversions to other microcomputer BASICS exist.
The game has been ported to VZ200.
In 2019, a new version of this game (with graphics) was created for BBC Micro, by John Blythe of Rucksack Games.
An Inform version of the game was created by Gavin Lambert in 2020.
Resources (Upload file)
- Solution
- by Richard Bos
- Map
- by Richard Bos
- Further Info:
- Search at Complete BBC Games Archive
- Search at Gamebase64
- Search at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
- Search at Spectrum Computing
- Search at The Tipshop
- Search at World of Spectrum
[+] Users who have solved this game
[+] Users currently playing this game
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The Spectrum version of this on World of Spectrum is buggy, but easily patched: in line 210, change i+i to i+1 . (There are other bugs, but they're in the designed, not in the entry job, and they don't prevent the game from being finished. You just have to be careful what you type.)
A quirky little game where you are a mouse.
Not very intuitive at all, with a frustratingly limited vocabulary - as one would expect from a book type-in game.
Thanks for adding my version of the game to this entry. My version is called Micro Adventure. I loved this game, it was one of the first adventures I ever played as a kid as it was the first type-in game did. Loved the Usborne books.
Note: I did make some minor changes like not having to type 'remote-control' in full, LOL. That was annoying. I fixed a couple of little bugs too. I loved adding the graphics it, just to give it a bit of flashy presentation. :D