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THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE
TINDER BOX
PUBLISHER
Gremlin Graphics
AUTHOR(S)
YEAR
October 1985
CATALOGUE NUMBER
CATEGORY
Adventure
DESCRIPTION
A fairytale text adventure.
CONTROLS
Keyboard.
INSTRUCTIONS
ORIGINAL INLAY CARD TEXT
HINTS/CHEATS
SEQUELS/PREQUELS
SCORES RECEIVED
REVIEWS
Review of _Tinderbox_ from Sinclair User No.43, October 1985
GREMLIN GRAPHICS is not a company noted for its adventures.
_Tinderbox_ is a fairy tale, in which youplay the part of Tom,
a common foot-soldier, who has to defeat the wicked witch and
evil king to gain the hand of the fair Rowella. As an adventure,
it's a disgrace. It is written entirely in Basic, and contains
large numbers of boring locations where little or nothing
happens. The computer does not understand even a simple,
standard adventure command such as Look. As Tom happily wades
through a lake without so much as getting his feet wet, he may
well ponder his bad luck in not signing up as a mercenary with
Pete Austin or Brian Howarth. The B side of the cassette
contains a long fairy story printed up screen by screen. It is
the story of Tom, the common foot, and you've guessed the rest
already. All profits go to the Soft-Aid appeal for Ethiopia.
It's very fine of Gremlin Graphics to do that, but they might
have chosen a halfway decent program to flog for charity. If you
care about Ethiopia - and you should - then send a fiver to Bob
Geldof. There's no point bothering with _Tinderbox_ - it lights
nobody's fire.
Chris Bourne
Publisher: Gremlin Graphics
Price: 4.99
Memory: 48K
Rating: * (out of 5, meaning: A rip-off)
URLS
GENERAL FACTS
This game may have been one of the first "charity" games, where
the software house gives some or all of the profits to charity.
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