Waxworks
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Number 11 and final entry in the Mysterious Adventures series. You've spent a fun day at the local fair. Now you decide to head over to the waxworks for some fun. But you are tired. You lie down for a snooze...
This screen displays while the game loads (ZX Spectrum)
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After confirming this is the start of a game and not a resumption, a new game commences (ZX Spectrum)
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This is the second location. Not much description and no clue as to what there is in the room (ZX Spectrum)
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Location three and at last we're in a tunnel where all adventures must go eventually (ZX Spectrum)
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When the light goes out the pictures go too (ZX Spectrum)
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The game starts at once with little introduction. (Commodore 64)
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The toilets (Commodore 64)
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A spooky corridor (Commodore 64)
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Starting screen if you choose to have color. (Atari 8-bit)
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Starting screen if you choose not to have color. (Atari 8-bit)
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Old Cover Image
It turns out you are trapped in the Waxworks. Is it all a dream though? Around this time, the game engine was redone to allow complete sentences instead of the more primitive 2-word Scott Adams parser that had been used previously although early versions of the game may have still used the cruder parser.
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- February 15, 2023
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Digital Fantasia
Paxman Promotions Ltd.
Channel 8 Software
Digital Fantasia Ltd.
Year of Release:
1983
Platform(s):
Genre(s):
Interactive Fiction
Traditional
Graphic Style:
2D
Camera View:
First-Person
Control Type:
Text Parser