Gnome Ranger

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Description

Ingrid Bottomlow stands out from her family of gnomes - she's a gifted student, with a degree from the Institute of Gnome Economics. As a result, they exile her using a teleporting spell, leaving her lost in the forest. It is your job to keep her safe in this interactive fiction game.

The game is split into three tasks, broadly relating to animal, vegetable and mineral in that order. The first involves defeating an evil witch, the second is the Riddle of the Shrinking Teapot, and the third involves precious stones.

Commands such as FOLLOW, FIND and GO TO make travelling the game world much easier, and put an emphasis on object-manipulation and character interaction, rather than map-making.

Instructions can be issued to other characters, with words like THEN, FIND and GIVE to join them. This co-operation is essential to solve many puzzles, and takes place in a world where characters have their own aims and motives. There are BRIEF and VERBOSE modes of text. A running joke in the game is that the screen display adds a 'g' to the start of all words beginning with n - 'gnorth' and 'gnugget' for example.

Graphics are included in the disk versions of the game, except in the ports for Atari 8-bit and Apple II, which are text-only on every media.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Gnome Ranger series
• Protagonist: Female

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ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Atari ST	Dec, 1987	915 out of 1000	92
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Amstrad CPC	Dec, 1987	915 out of 1000	92
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	DOS	Dec, 1987	915 out of 1000	92
Commodore User	Commodore 64	Nov, 1987	9 out of 10	90
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	Jan, 1988	9 out of 10	90
Zzap!	Commodore 64	Dec, 1987	87 out of 100	87
Amstrad Action	Amstrad CPC	Jan, 1988	85 out of 100	85
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Amiga	Nov, 1987	9 out of 12	75
Power Play	Atari ST	1987	5 out of 10	50
The Games Machine (UK)	Amiga	Dec, 1987	49 out of 100	49

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