Software:Empire of the Over-Mind
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Publisher(s) | Avalon Hill |
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Designer(s) | Gary Bedrosian[1] |
Platform(s) | Apple II, Atari 8-bit, DOS, TRS-80 |
Release | 1981: Apple, TRS-80 1982: Atari [2] 1986: DOS [1] |
Genre(s) | Interactive fiction |
Empire of the Over-Mind (sometimes Empire of the Overmind) is an interactive fiction game written by Gary Bedrosian and published by Avalon Hill for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and TRS-80 in 1981.[3] A version with an enhanced display for DOS by Bedrosian was published in 1986.[1]
Contents
Empire of the Over-Mind is a text only adventure game in which the player must free a magical kingdom from the control of the evil computer Over-Mind.[4] The game is accompanied by a poem, "The Rhyme of the Over-Mind," which provides necessary clues for the gameplay.[5]
Reception
In a 1984 COMPUTE! piece on adventure games, Selby Bateman wrote: "One very popular game for Avalon Hill has been its all-text adventure, Empire of the OverMind [sic] for Apple II and Atari computers, which is still selling well, notes Jack Dodd, Avalon Hill's director of marketing."[6]
The price of the game was a point of contention. Anthony Hughes wrote for Page 6 that it was "twice the price of the U.K. produced Adventures but still represents very good value."[5] Bill Seligman's review in The Space Gamer No. 49 concluded that "For the price of this primitive program, one could buy two-and-a-half Scott Adams all-text adventures or one full-color graphics adventure from On-Line. Not recommended."[4]
Another criticism of the game was its lengthy load and processing times.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dyer, 1Jason (June 9, 2017). "Empire of the Over-Mind". https://bluerenga.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/empire-of-the-over-mind-1979/.
- ↑ "Empire of the Over-Mind". http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-empire-of-the-over-mind_1834.html.
- ↑ "Empire of the Over-Mind Manual". Avalon Hill. 1981. https://archive.org/details/vgmuseum_ah_overmind-manual.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Seligman, Bill (March 1982). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer (Steve Jackson Games) (49): 34.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Hughes, Anthony (1984). "Empire of the Overmind". Page 6 (10). https://www.page6.org/archive/issue_10/page_38a.htm.
- ↑ Bateman, Selby (October 1984). "Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?". Compute! (54): 42. https://archive.org/details/1984-10-compute-magazine/page/n43.
External links
- Electronic Games review
- 1984 Software Encyclopedia from Electronic Games
- Review in The Addison Wesley Book Of Atari Software 1984
- Another review in Electronic Games
- Review in Compute!'s Guide to Adventure Games
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