Software:Cranston Manor
| Cranston Manor | |
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| Developer(s) | On-Line Systems |
| Publisher(s) | On-Line Systems |
| Designer(s) | Larry Ledden[1] Harold DeWitz[2] Ken Williams[2] |
| Series | Hi-Res Adventures |
| Engine | ADL |
| Platform(s) | Apple II, FM-7, PC-88, PC-98 |
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| Genre(s) | Graphic adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Cranston Manor is a graphic adventure published for the Apple II by On-Line Systems in 1981 and is Hi-Res Adventure #3.[6] The player must invade a mansion that was occupied by a millionaire and steal the sixteen treasures that are inside of it.[6] The game allows players to switch between graphics-based and text-based gameplay.[6]
Cranston Manor is based on Larry Ledden's text adventure The Cranston Manor Adventure. The graphical version was programmed by Ledden, Ken Williams, and Harold DeWitz.[2]
Development
Larry Ledden wrote The Cranston Manor Adventure as text-only interactive fiction for the Atari 8-bit computers. It was published by Artworx in 1981. Sierra On-Line acquired the rights from Ledden to create a graphical version which was published as Cranston Manor for the Apple II. Ledden was paid royalties, but did not receive credit in Sierra's version.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cranston Manor Adventure". https://www.mocagh.org/loadpage.php?getgame=cranston-alt.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hague, James. "The Giant list of Classic Game Programmers". https://dadgum.com/giantlist/.
- ↑ "Softalk Presents the Bestsellers" (in en). Softalk: 116. September 1981. https://archive.org/details/softalkv2n01sep1981/page/116/mode/2up. Retrieved 2025-11-13.
- ↑ "NewSoft: クランストン・マナー (Cranston Manor)" (in ja). Login (ログイン) (ASCII Corporation): 14. November 1983. https://archive.org/details/login-november-1983/LOGiN%20-%20November%201983/page/n15/mode/2up. Retrieved 2025-11-13.
- ↑ "1983年10月発売のソフト (Software released in October 1983)" (in ja). https://www.gamepres.org/pc88/library/1983/1983_10.htm#cran.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Cranston Manor manual". On-Line Systems. 1981. https://mocagh.org/sierra/cranston-alt3.pdf.
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