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by Strident
Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:29 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

Yeah, I have quite a few on my list already. Many of the Flexisoft ones seem to have been text adventures.

This (!) was apparently the Zivorx Adventure inlay (?) https://www.smspower.org/Scans/ZivorxAdventure-SC-NZ-Inlay

useful list: https://segaretro.org/Talk:SC-3000

More on The Young'ns
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by Strident
Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:03 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

Re: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

Transylvanian Castle of Horror
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Definitely a text adventure, as shown here... https://segaretro.org/Transylvania_Castle_of_Horror

Another source to trawl through: https://segaretro.org/Sega_Computer
https://segaretro.org/South_Australian_Sega_Magazine
https://segaretro.org ...
by Strident
Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:59 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures
Replies: 93
Views: 192859

SC-3000 Rabbit Hole... Unlisted Adventures

Okay, I've disappeared down a SEGA SC-3000 rabbit hole now and have randomly spotted lots of text adventures that we have missing from the database.

I'm posting a few of them here, but will need to return to investigate (and check) them, and the SC-3000 scene at some point with a more organised ...
by Strident
Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:36 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Grandstand Leisure
Replies: 4
Views: 1399

Re: Grandstand Leisure

Thinking about the Enterprise Escapes a bit more, it actually seems more likely it might be a rip-off of Bob Retelle's earlier Trek Adventure...
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C1072/Trek+Adventure.html

Especially given the similar synopsis...
"This one takes place aboard a familiar starship ...
by Strident
Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:11 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Grandstand Leisure
Replies: 4
Views: 1399

Re: Grandstand Leisure

Screenshots from Death Satellite
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taken from: https://segaretro.org/Death_Satellite
by Strident
Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:46 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Grandstand Leisure
Replies: 4
Views: 1399

Re: Grandstand Leisure

Ongoing research...

Enterprise Escape
Synopsis taken from Sega Computer (NZ) 1984-07
"An adventure game racing against time to escape from a striken starship."

Aha... a better synopsis for Enterprise Escape from Sega Computer 1984-11
"You are on the bridge of the deserted Starship Enterprise ...
by Strident
Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:15 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Grandstand Leisure
Replies: 4
Views: 1399

Grandstand Leisure

I'm going to look into these Grandstand Leisure games for the Sega SC-3000...
http://solutionarchive.com/list/company%2C1422/

...because one of them...

Mars Adventurer
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C5117/Mars+Adventurer.html
http://solutionarchive.com/file/force%2Ctrue/id%2C8831/

appears ...
by Strident
Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:09 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: Untangling Dog Stars...
Replies: 17
Views: 8659

Re: Untangling Dog Stars...

Adding this to the potential list of games "inspired" by Dog Star...

Death Star
http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C7651/Death+Star.html

...more investigation needed to check if it's related, and if it lines up... There's almost a family tree forming with these games... games that are direct ...
by Strident
Sat Aug 21, 2021 7:28 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Ork! House of Fortune c64
Replies: 9
Views: 3109

Re: Ork! House of Fortune c64

I think there were some programs that could technically decompile compiled BASIC programs on the C64.
https://commodore.software/downloads/ca ... -compilers
by Strident
Tue Aug 17, 2021 1:10 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Ork! House of Fortune c64
Replies: 9
Views: 3109

Re: Ork! House of Fortune c64


-If you dig with the shovel, you are attacked by giant worms. I think you should use the machetti, but USE MACHETTI doesn't work.
-Because of this I can't get the rusty key. I think it is used to unlock the guest house.
-I think the golden key is used to unlock the keyhole to the secret passage ...
by Strident
Sun Aug 15, 2021 4:53 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Save Our Ship/Galaxy Trek Adventure
Replies: 1
Views: 1221

Save Our Ship/Galaxy Trek Adventure

From information elsewhere... such as comments left on the Gamingafter40 blog, and notes from @jgerrie on the IFDB entry...
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=5zlnxk01px57la1d
http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/2017/05/

Save Our Ship by Randy Hawkins
from 80micro, August 1982
https://archive.org/details/80 ...
by Strident
Sat Aug 14, 2021 8:11 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Doem Pyramide
Replies: 8
Views: 2805

Re: Doem Pyramide Door

Yeah, judging by the range and varying origins of the Courbois games, I guessed that not all of them could be classed as "official" releases... In general, across the board, there seems to have been a lot of C64 games that managed to end up being classed as "public domain" when many of them weren't ...
by Strident
Sat Aug 14, 2021 4:11 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Doem Pyramide
Replies: 8
Views: 2805

Re: Doem Pyramide Door

I'm guessing it's this one from Your Computer, January 1984
https://archive.org/details/your-comput ... page/n113/

Was there a Dutch equivalent, that might've translated the game?
by Strident
Sat Aug 14, 2021 4:03 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Doem Pyramide
Replies: 8
Views: 2805

Doem Pyramide

Hi @Alex

I've just noticed this Dutch game on GB64
http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=29122&d=18&h=0
...and have added it to the site as...
https://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C9228/Pyramide.html

Looking at the screenshots, it looks to me like it might be a Dutch version of...
https ...
by Strident
Sat Aug 14, 2021 1:33 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: Untangling Dog Stars...
Replies: 17
Views: 8659

Re: Untangling Dog Stars...

I think I'm tempted to keep the main Dog Star entry for straight ports of Dog Star Adventure, and then have a second Star Wars Adventure/Darth Vader Adventure et al. page for all the various versions that are obviously based on the Dog Star code but have shoe-horned in extra elements and changed all ...