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The White Barrows

Role-playing (RPG) Adventure Action Fantasy
December 31, 1983
Released 15460 days ago
BBC Microcomputer System Atari 8-bit Dragon 32/64 Commodore C64/128/MAX ZX Spectrum TRS-80

About

This is a text based game that has elements from a multiple genres dungeon crawl, puzzle, logic challenge, and even resource management. The back story is about a bad wizard who's stolen a magic chalice and you play the plucky adventurer who has to get it back. The bad guy is hiding in the ancient burial grounds, or barrows. The game is based on a map of the barrows in which there are 40 or so rooms. You are dropped randomly into a room. In other rooms are gnomes, trolls, dragons etc and in one room is the wizard. The game is played by moving from room to room exploring. You may view connecting rooms. You may raise a magic wall in an adjacent room. However you have only 400 magic points and viewing or raising a wall costs points so it's important to find the wizard before points run out. The game is a text game. There is only one graphic which is the map that shows how the rooms are connected.

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Release Dates by Platform

Atari 8-bit Worldwide
Dec 31, 1983
BBC Microcomputer System Worldwide
Dec 31, 1983
Commodore C64/128/MAX Worldwide
Dec 31, 1983
ZX Spectrum Worldwide
Dec 31, 1983
TRS-80 Worldwide
Dec 31, 1983
Dragon 32/64 Worldwide
Dec 31, 1984

Game Info

Developer
ASP Software Ltd.
Publisher
ASP Software Ltd.
Game Modes
Single player
Perspective
Text
Genres
Role-playing (RPG) Adventure
Themes
Action Fantasy

Languages

Text / Subtitles
English

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