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Golden Baton, The

Channel 8 Software info, Digital Fantasia info, Molimerx info 1981

Language:
English
Authors:
Brian Howarth info
Platforms:
Atari 400/800, BBC/Electron info, C16/Plus4, C64/128 info, Dragon 32/64 info, Oric/Atmos, PC info, Spectrum, TRS-80 info, VIC20
Genres:
Fantasy, misc.
Related:
Mysterious Adventures [1: Golden Baton, The, 2: Time Machine, The, 3: Arrow of Death Part 1, 4: Arrow of Death Part 2, 5: Escape From Pulsar 7, 6: Circus, 7: Feasibility Experiment, 8: Wizard of Akyrz, The, 9: Perseus & Andromeda, 10: Ten Little Indians, 11: Waxworks, 12: Midwinter, 13: After the Fire, 14: Beyond the Infinite, 15: Ghost of Mars, The]
Entered by:
Alastair, dave, Gunness, iamaran, Strident, WhenIWasCruel
Added:
10-05-2010
Edited:
12-07-2020

Synopsis

Plot

Your mission is to recover the Golden Baton, a priceless artefact that holds within it a kind of life force that maintains the equilibrium between good and evil. Stolen from the Palace of King Ferrenuil, the kingdom is already beginning to feel the effects of drought and pestilence.

Notes

The original TRS-80 version, and slightly later IBM PC port, was published by Molimerx.

An initial cut-down, 8K version for Vic 20 was published in 1982 by Leisuronics (Leisuresoft).

To obtain graphics on a Dragon requires the computer to be in Dragon 64 mode, otherwise the game is text only.

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Images

Image
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Rating

Average User Rating: 4.5 (8 ratings)

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User Comments

Jewwbat (19-02-2020 18:06)

Incredible easy compared to almost all other adventures. Recommended for first timers into the txt based gaming world. Still fun, as they all :)

Exemptus (16-04-2020 19:27)

Short and fun, but a tad arbitrary at times. Howarth's terse style (one of the best imitators of Scott Adams, if not the best) ended up becoming an acquired taste for me.