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Boo!
AuthorWayne Marsh
Filenameboo.tap
Year2005
PositionNo ranking
FormatSpectrum
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DescriptionA text adventure with a twist. Written in almost pure assembly, this is a colourful and frustratingly hard adventure. The ghost in question will kill you as soon as you do anything wrong, which is any input you care to make that the game's limited parser will understand. I played this for literally hours (or maybe not) before giving up and looking on the tipshop for tips... of which there are none, this being a new release.

Graphically, the game excels. On the title screen, there is a neat little logo and a lovely multicolour fade effect as you are launched into a world of intrigue, windows, cupboards and inevitably death. The scrolling is second to none, considering the popularity of being able to watch it scroll in *real time* that has surfaced these days.

Unfortunately, the game seems designed to make you fail - and as such succeeds mightily. Only the dodgy scrolling makes this even slightly crap.

This game gets a crap score of 2/10, as there's no real attempt been made at actually including a game.

CommentsThis game did make me chuckle, even if it was predictable. Why on earth would a ghost be called Minty??? Anyway, it is a quite well presented text adventure, but because of exactly that reason, it drops a point.

I'll give this 5/10.


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