John Collins 1980

Language:

English

Authors:

John Collins

Systems:

BASIC

Platforms:

Bally Astrocade

Entered by:

jgerrie, Strident

Added:

04-04-2025

Edited:

04-04-2025

Synopsis

An adventure game; one player. Game can last for days or weeks; can save at any point for restart; can go in nine directions; find the ten treasures and return to house; can only carry four treasures at one time. Each move subtracts a point. A magic word-sound-color will be helpful.

Notes

Written in 4K of Bally BASIC. The game was advertised for sale in user publications such as the Arcadian newsletter smallads.

The Bally Alley site has details about all of John Collins' games, including Bally's Alley. It includes the source code re-typed-in by Paul Thacker in November 2022 from a hand written listing.

Jason Dyer has written an extensive post about the game as part of his All the Adventures project.

Jim Gerrie has ported the game to TRS-80 MC-10. His version includes bug fixes for potential errors in the transcribed source code, so that the game can be completed. See his blog for details.

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