Arrow of Death: Part I
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Arrow of Death: Part I Commodore 64 Front Cover

Published by

Released

1981

Platforms

Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Browser, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, Oric, TRS-80, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum

Genre

Adventure

Perspective

1st-person

Visual

Fixed / flip-screen

Gameplay

Interactive fiction / text adventure

Interface

Setting

Not an American user?

Description

Brian Howarth's second Mysterious Adventure follows on from your success in retrieving the Golden Baton. Peace was initially ensured, but the baton has subsequently become tarnished, and now radiates evil. Crop failures and illness are now rampant throughout the land.

The only solution is to find the Arrow of Death (in this game) and assemble it. Armour, an orb and an eagle are among the helpful objects in completing your quest. The game is largely one of exploration and object manipulation, with little combat.

These games used the Scott Adams adventure engine, and thus also have the same features - a basic 2-word parser, small vocabulary, and brief descriptions. They were similar to other adventures of the time.

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