Time Machine, The - Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Publisher:Channel 8  Info
Developer:Brian Howarth  Info
Year:Unknown
Category:Adventure / Text
Game Manual:Download (DOS) Game Music:N/A

Also on: Acorn BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 16, Commodore 64, Commodore Plus 4, Commodore VIC-20, Dragon 32-64, Microsoft DOS

Video from another systemAcorn BBC Micro version shown because a Sinclair ZX Spectrum video is unavailable.
Acorn BBC Micro version


The first in the Mysterious Adventure series of illustrated text adventures by Brian Howarth. You are a newspaper reporter, come to investigate the eccentric professor who lives all by himself out on the moors. When you get there, you find the place deserted though. Ultimately you must rescue the professor by finding 3 missing prisms which control his time machine, which are lost in time.

These games used the Scott Adams adventure engine, and thus also had the same limitations - a basic 2-word parser, limited vocabulary, and brief descriptions. Nevertheless, they were quite remarkable for their time, with little else on the market quite like them.


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