Computer + Video Games - Commodore Is Awesome

4- 0,401OF UOE ZVNnewsInfocom title to be1 4 ( The eighth and finallaunched this year,will be Border Zone,Intocom's first adventurewith a spy scenario.It was written by MarkBlanc, co-founder andco-author of Zork. Nolonger working ot Infocom.Mark wrote the game onthe Infocom computer,working remotely via amodem.Release is expectedduring November in theUSA, and a few weeks laterin Europe and the UK.Eight releases in oneyear is a record forInfocom, and it is expectedthat a similar number ofnew titles will be producedin 1988. One of these will bea Sherlock Holmesadventure It will be unlikethe Deadline/Witness/Suspect series, havingmore object manipulation.Two new Infocom gamesare reviewed this issue.Light is the working111( Fromtitle ofDarknessa new gameintobeing written by JudithChilds, previously of Delta4. Playing the part of awoman, your task is toreturn a chalice stolenfrom the local church.Written on the Quill, and tobe published by CRLaround November, thegame will be available forC64, Spectrum, andAmstrad.Following the success ofRod Pike's Dracula andFrankenstein adventures,CRL has three more tales ofhorror in the pipeline. Rodis working on Wolf Man,and Jack the Ripper is onthe way for St. Brides. Anadventure based on Jekylland Hyde is also planned.Two new non-Kerovnianadventures fromMagnetic Scrolls willfollow Jinxter.Assosin is the workingtitle of the next Scrollsrelease via Rain bird. DueWelcome to the Adventure Zone! Anythingcan happen within the next few pages —and probably will as Keith Cambell,C 4-VG's master of the mystic arts, bringsyou news, reviews and helpful hints fromthe wacky world of adventuring. So pleasedon't adjust your magazine — reality will beresumed as soon as possibleearly next year, it is set inpresent day London,Meanwhile, AnitaSinclair's own -special"adventure. UponWestminster Bridge, hasbeen postponed until late1988.Colleagues in theStates commonlyhave undergroundtunnels linking thebuildings on campus. Theyare built for use in the verycold weather oftenexperienced in America.Those in Lurking Horror orea close copy of the tunnelsat the MassachusetsInstitute of Technology,says author Dave Lebling,who co-wrote the originalZork on a DEC at MIT,before moving on to foundInfocom, and put Zork onmicros."Lurking Horrors shouldreally have been written inthe Interactive Fiction Plussystem," explainedLebling. He would haveliked to incorporate a lotmore choices for theplayer, such as being ableto repair the floor waxer.and then being able toride it. However, he washalf way through when itbecame apparent that todo this would meanmoving ly over on to thelarger 'plus' system for 128kmachines, delaying theproiect by some months.Count yourselves lucky, 64owners!Pollizos of Athens,l i won him O+VG'sA monthly award of a freel subscription eto thet Adventurer's tClub. Curedeof r buying cheap piratedf software after discoveringthat he couldn't playrPortal because the pirateomKosthad omitted a completedata file from the illicitcopy, Kostas decided theonly way to get Adventuregames, not easilyavailable in Greece, wasby mail order from the UK.Kostas is a loneadventurer, for all hisfriends play arcadegames. "Write to me if youcan, so I do not feel solonely when I am playingan adventure!" wroteKostos.To help him with his mailordering,Kostos will nowget the benefit of discountsoftware through Ad, anda bi-monthly dosier.You too can win an ACLsubscription! Write aninteresting letter to me atthe Adventure Helpline,and you're in with achance! But no beggingletters, please! Only lettersnot mentioning that thewriter would like theaward, will be consideredeligible!Pete Moreland andJohn Jones-Steel arediscussing plans for a16-bit version of the classictext adventure Mordon'sQuest. Details are not yetfinalsed, but is likely thatAtari Mordon will havegraphics.is to be the venue ofan Adventurel i tSConvention, on Saturdayu28th t November. Seminarston o Multi-user adventures,n adventure games, will formpthe background to anuall-day workshop featuringon-line demos of multi-userbadventures, with otherl games running on aivariety of micros.-clibraOrganised by Clubspot,the Prestel arm of theAssociation of LondonComputer Clubs, togetherwith Sutton LibraryComputer Club, the eventcommences at 9.30 amand admission costs E2.50on the door. Sutton libraryis situated in St. NicholasWay.There w nethingnot quite right aboutthis particular visitorto our live Helpline at thePCW Show. Smiling andchatty, but starting to getup my nose. Don't youcome here and pick mybrains, and then startgetting nasty, -I And then he did it. Hissmile t h o turning u g h tto an uglysneer, his lips curled, andhe . slowly reached for thezipper of his jacket. "I shallundo it now!" heannounced, mockingly. Ofcourse I knew in that lastsplit second what horrorwould be revealed - THATt-shirt.I fled in terror, lest Ibecame the object of hisdisgustingly evig groping&And he calmly walkedonto the stand, donned hispaper bag, and took overthe Helpline if you please!That was my first and lastsighting of the Fiend, whenI plucked up courageenough to return, he haddisappeared. I still don'tknow who he is, and sofrighteningly ordinary arehis features, I doubt if Iwould recognise him ifever I saw him again. Hemight even be standingbehind you in thenewsagents this veryminute. reding this copy ofC + VG over your shoulder!A belated 'congrats'to Fergus McNeilland Anna Popkess.of Delta 4 and AbstractConcepts, who recentlybecame engaged. andplan to marry next year.One honeymoonpossibility, a cruise in theFlorida area, has beenruled out, because it'smurder off Miami. (KC'sbeen playing far toomuch Nord and Bert! Ed).