Philosopher's Quest (Topologika) for the BBC Micro
8Came also out for:
Amstrad CPC
Amstrad PCW
Archimedes
Electron
Windows
ZX Spectrum
Game description:
Plot
Welcome to the adventure Philosopher's Quest, an "intelligent" adventure where the player explores a strange land full of weird and unlikely things, some dangerous, some even magical.
In this new and authentic game the concept of the adventure is exploited to the full, and extended to include abstract thought as a means to progress and survival. However, wild speculation will get you nowhere, you have to use your wits! The objective is to find all the treasures and bring them back to where you began, but in the meantime you have to sift clues, weigh up risks, spot magic words and remember which way you came!
Notes
Originally written as Brand X and placed on the Phoenix mainframe at Cambridge University, then commercially released as Philosopher's Quest by Topologika several years later.
Acornsoft released the game for the BBC, but due to memory limitations, quite a lot of the game was removed.
It has been claimed that some of this material was used for Castle of Riddles instead, but this has been disputed: "The two originals were Castle of Riddles and Countdown to Doom. The former feels very much like Philosopher’s Quest II, although it is a completely original effort and not, as is sometimes reported, derived à la Zork II and III from yet-unused sections of Philosopher’s Quest‘s mainframe source, Brand X."
Info from http://solutionarchive.com/game/id%2C400/Philosopher%27s+Quest.html
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