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Labyrinth (1980 Video Game)
''Labyrinth'' is a 1980 adventure video game published by Med Systems Software for TRS-80. It is the second game in the ''Continuum'' series, following ''Deathmaze 5000''. Contents ''Labyrinth'' is a game where the player travels through a maze looking for clues and tools to help kill the Minotaur. Reception J. Mishcon reviewed ''Labyrinth'' in '' The Space Gamer'' No. 38. Mishcon commented that "This is truly one of the best adventure games by any criteria. At he price He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...it borders on unbelievable. Believe it. Buy it." References {{reflist, refs= {{cite web , last1=Reed , first1=Matthew , title=Labyrinth , url=http://www.trs-80.org/labyrinth/ , website=TRS-80.org External linksReviewin 80 Micro 1980 video games TRS-80 games TR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Med Systems Software
Med Systems Software was a company that produced video games for home computers in the early 1980s. In 1983, the company name was changed to Screenplay. History Med Systems Software was headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Games *''Labyrinth'' (1980) *'' Deathmaze 5000'' (1980, by Frank Corr) *''Asylum'' (1981) *'' The Institute'' (1981) *''Laser Defense'' (1981, by Simon Smith) *'' The Human Adventure'' (1981, by William F. Denman, Jr.) *'' Microworld'' (1981, by Arti Haroutunian) *''Asylum II'' (1982) *'' Dunzhin'' (1982) *'' Phantom Slayer'' (1982) *''Danger Ranger ''Danger Ranger'' is a non-scrolling platform game designed by Ken Kalish and published in 1983 by Microdeal for the Dragon 32/64 and TRS-80 Color Computer. The game was ported to the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64 by Rita Jay in 1984. Gam ...'' (1983) *''Monkey Kong'' (1983) References {{reflist Defunct video game companies of the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TRS-80
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. The name is an abbreviation of ''Tandy Radio Shack, Z80 icroprocessor'. It is one of the earliest mass-produced and mass-marketed retail home computers. The TRS-80 has a full-stroke QWERTY keyboard, the Zilog Z80 processor, 4 KB dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) standard memory, small size and desk area, floating-point Level I BASIC language interpreter in read-only memory (ROM), 64-character per line video monitor, and a starting price of US$600 (equivalent to US$ in ). A cassette tape drive for program storage was included in the original package. While the software environment was stable, the cassette load/save process combined with keyboard bounce issues and a troublesome Expansion Interface contributed to the Model I's reputation as not well-suited to serious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Video Game
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multiplayer design difficult. ''Colossal Cave Adventure'' is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include ''Zork'', '' King's Quest'', ''Monkey Island'', and ''Myst''. Initial adventure games developed in the 1970s and early 1980s were text-based, using text parsers to translate the player's input into commands. As personal computers became more powerful with better graphics, the graphic adventure-game format became popular, initially by augmenting player's text commands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deathmaze 5000
''Deathmaze 5000'' is TRS-80 computer game written by Frank Corr, Jr. and published by Med Systems Software in 1980. It was ported to the Apple II and followed by the second game in the Continuum series, '' Labyrinth''. Gameplay ''Deathmaze 5000'' is a first-person graphic adventure in which the player move through the labyrinthine hallways of a five-story building to escape and avoid starving to death. The adventurer must fight monsters, collect objects, and solve puzzles. Reception Russ Williams reviewed ''Deathmaze 5000'' in '' The Space Gamer'' No. 47. Williams commented that "''Deathmaze 5000'' is an excellent game which will ''not'' be solved in a few weeks. If you like the prospect of a game that could last you for a ''very'' long time, get it. It's better than many ore expensivegames I've seen, both in price and in gaming value." Reviews *''Computer and Video Games ''Computer and Video Games'' (also known as ''CVG'', ''Computer & Video Games'', ''C&VG'', ''Computer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Space Gamer
''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. The magazine is no longer published, but the rights holders maintain a web presence using its final title ''Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer''. History ''The Space Gamer'' (''TSG'') started out as a digest quarterly publication of the brand new Metagaming Concepts Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983. It was founded and owned by Howard Thompson, who designed the company's first game, '' Stellar Conquest''. The company also inven ... company in March 1975. Howard M. Thompson, the owner of Metagaming and the first editor of the magazine, stated "The magazine had been planned for after our third or fourth game but circumstances demand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine ''Pyramid''. History Founded in 1980, six years after the creation of ''Dungeons & Dragons'', SJ Games created several role-playing and strategy games with science fiction themes. SJ Games' early titles were microgames initially sold in 4×7 inch ziploc bags, and later in the similarly sized Pocket Box. Games such as ''Ogre'', ''Car Wars'', and ''G.E.V'' (an ''Ogre'' spin-off) were popular during SJ Games' early years. Game designers such as Loren Wiseman and Jonathan Leistiko have worked for Steve Jackson Games. Today SJ Games publishes a variety of games, such as card games, board games, strategy games, and in different genres, such as fantasy, sci-fi, and gothic horror. They also published the book ''Principia Discordia'', the sacred text of the Discordian religion. Raid by the Secret S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
80 Micro
''80 Micro'' was a computer magazine, published between 1980 and 1988, that featured program listings, products and reviews for the TRS-80. History Wayne Green, the creator of many magazines such as '' 73'', founded ''80 Microcomputing'' as a spinoff of his ''Kilobaud Microcomputing'' solely for Tandy Corporation's Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I microcomputer. Like his other magazines it encouraged readers to submit articles and reviews. A 1980 advertisement for the magazine promised that it would "tell you the truth … the good things about the TRS-80 and the not so good" because "Wayne Green has never been one to mince words". By 1982 ''80 Micro'' was the third largest magazine in terms of obtaining advertising, selling 152,000 issues; only ''Vogue'' and ''BYTE'' were larger. Renamed ''80 Micro'' on issue 30 in June/July 1982, the magazine's November 1982 issue had 518 pages, the most in its history for a regular issue. Green attributed the magazine's success to Radio Shack's po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Video Games
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Adventure Games
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multiplayer design difficult. ''Colossal Cave Adventure'' is identified as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include ''Zork'', ''King's Quest'', ''Monkey Island'', and ''Myst''. Initial adventure games developed in the 1970s and early 1980s were text-based, using text parsers to translate the player's input into commands. As personal computers became more powerful with better graphics, the graphic adventure-game format became popular, initially by augmenting player's text commands wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
