Emerald Isle

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Description

You have been hired to deliver important documents across the Caribbean. Heavy winds take hold of your plane across the Bermuda Triangle. At the last moment, you parachute out, landing on a mysterious island known as Emerald Isle. It is said that no one ever returns from that place, but legend has that one person may be allowed to leave - the ruler of the island. The way to freedom is fraught with problems, of course, deadly predators and peculiar natives the least of them.

It is possible for the player to die in the game. If that happens they are resurrected elsewhere and retain all the posessions they had.

The game is a text adventure utilizing Level 9's adventure system. The parser expects two- or three-word commands. On some systems, the game features graphics (more than 200 pictures).

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Sinclair Programs	ZX Spectrum	May, 1985	90 out of 100	90
Crash!	ZX Spectrum	May, 1985	9 out of 10	90
Zzap!	Commodore 64	May, 1985	85 out of 100	85
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Commodore 64	May, 1985	8 out of 10	80
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	May, 1985		80
Popular Computing Weekly	BBC Micro	Apr 04, 1985		60
Tilt	MSX	Jul, 1986		50
Computer Gamer	ZX Spectrum	Apr, 1985		40

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According to the magazine Retro Gamer (issue #5), the game originally included a cannibal sequence which was removed because it might have been considered racist.

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• Illustrated world map (2 pages illustrated map by Francis Phythian published by the UK magazine Atari User issue #43 (November 1988))