Mysterious Adventure No. 2: The Time Machine for the Atari 8-bit family

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Published on December 23, 2013 4:49:41 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1c3LgkUA6k

Duration: 4:34

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Came also out for:

BBC Micro
Browser
Commodore 64
Dragon 32/64
ZX Spectrum


Game description:

The Time Machine is the second in the Mysterious Adventure series of text adventures by Brian Howarth. You are a newspaper reporter, come to investigate the eccentric professor who lives all by himself out on the moors. When you get there, you find the place deserted though. Ultimately you must rescue the professor by finding 3 missing prisms which control his time machine, which are lost in time.

As the other games in the series, the game uses an interpreter similar to the Scott Adams adventure engine, and thus also has the same limitations - a basic 2-word parser, limited vocabulary, and brief descriptions. Illustrations are included in Spectrum, C64, Dragon and Oric ports.


What I think:

I love time travels in games, but here it is rather annoying, as it is ALWAYS really random...

Other than that it is not a bad game, but like Mysterious Adventure No. 1 it is short.