Game:

In Search of the Most Amazing Thing (1983)

Duration: 15:41

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"In Search of The Most Amazing Thing" is a nice adventure game that was a bit longer. I usually play shorter games, so I wanted to show you that also longer games existed.

Sadly for me there is a problem: Whenever my character try to sleep the game crashes 80% of the time. I could try saving the game every time before I command the character to sleep, but I think it has to do with a text message that appears while sleeping and that is necessary to progress in the game. The game crashes always when the words "Listen Kiddo..." appear. So I won't make a sequel and I cannot judge if this is a good or bad game. It just had a nice concept.

There are some other minor issues. I did slow the game to about 500 cycles, but sometimes the text is only displayed for a split second. No idea how to fix that.

Also read the manual. Without the manual you basically cannot play the game. The map in the manual page 14 shows where you are when you pull on the "where?" button. It gives you a letter/number, for example r16 should be the starting position.

You need DOSBox to play them. DOS stands for "disk operating system", for the IBM. Later Microsofts MS DOS became WinDOS (Windows 1.0).https://www.dosbox.com/

Download the game:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/in-search-of-the-most-amazing-thing-2c

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:55 Welcome to Metallica
1:49 Auction
2:55 Store
5:23 Getting Oil
7:39 Getting Food
9:51 Navigating towards a hut
14:52 Sleeping (Game crashes)

#80s #dosbox #gameplay #IBM #sciencefiction

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