C64 Game: Argon - L'Orrore di Providence

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Published on May 1, 2020 9:25:35 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEWfgbnQZo

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Italian language text adventure based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. I followed a solution (https://archive.org/stream/Viking-Adventures/Viking11#page/n6/mode/2up) but fouled it up somehow. From the manual (https://archive.org/stream/Viking-Adventures/Viking10#page/n9/mode/2up) translated into English:

"Argon was leafing through some newspapers, pleased to be mentioned in some articles. Impossible, man. For years now he was interested in paranormal cases.

Events where the law stopped due to the lack of logical reforms.

His real name was secret. Because he knew that the name of a man was his weak point in the neo-occult. So everyone, even his "customers", knew him as Argon.

Argon had the teachings of great occultists behind him. Collected during his long travels around the world, and this "knowledge". Added to his particular intuition for the esoteric world, they made him an infallible hound in cases where he had his main part in some paranormal phenomenon.

And it was his intuition that made him buy a copy of the "Rhode Island Bulletin" that morning.

Among the heaps of that little sight he discovered incredible news.

The headline read: "A chain of unexplained and horrible crimes has thrown Providence into a panic."

Reading the article Argon found that "loose" bodies had been found in the city in intact clothes, or open heads, emptied and then closed, and other horrors of this kind.

He didn't need anything else: before evening he was traveling to Providence, determined to put an end to this phenomena. Arriving in the city he learned that the local police had renounced the hypothesis of a maniac because of the inexplicability of some of the deaths.

Argon also discovered an element that connected all the "victims", and that had escaped traditional superficial police research: all those who had been affected by some unexplained death had just read a "horror" book written by the same author, a certain J.O. Poekraft.

At this point, all that was left was to go to the man and question him, and Argon didn't think twice.

When he arrived in front of the writer's house it was already late at night, and the lights of the house were all on.

Argon knocked, but no one answered: he decided to enter. And as soon as he crossed the threshold he found himself in a large living room furnished with style.

There was a hint of magic in the air, but he would have had to turn the house from top to bottom to solve its mystery if it had not been discovered by the mysterious writer first."

ROM: http://www.gb64.com/game.php?id=20441&d=18&h=0