Description
Crashing your spaceship on a strange planet and formulating some sort of escape plan is a longstanding convention in science fiction literature, film and games. This game begins with Jacaranda Jim's spaceship crashing on Ibberspleen IV and there the conventions evaporate: his antagonists? A fleet of homicidal beechwood armchairs. It's all right, though -- with your constant companion Alan the Gribbley and the assistance of Mavis, a cow, you will help Jim navigate Ibberspleen's strangely familiar village marketplace, hunting for legendary treasure and, ultimately, a return to outer space.
Alternate Titles
- "Derek the Troll" -- Working Title
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The Press Says
| SPAG |
Mar 24, 2001 |
7.5 out of 10 |
75 |
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Trivia
The game Jacaranda Jim was originally named "Derek the Troll" after a campus personality from Graham Cluley's stint at the Guildford College of Technology, during which an early version of the game was first written on a PRIME minicomputer. Having second thoughts about committing his mockery of a peer to the public record (and then asking people to send him money for it!), it was refashioned "Jacaranda Jim" and rewritten in Pascal for the PC; the irritating character of Derek was transformed into Alan the Gribbley, ultimately retaining only a handful of Derek's original accounting-related tics.
Some work was done on a planned sequel to JJ, entitled "The Case of Spindle's Crotchet", but it was set aside and, later, forgotten in favour of
Humbug.
Jacaranda Jim was placed in the public domain in May 1997.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
Pseudo_Intellectual (34892) on Jun 23, 2006.
