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From: earendil@wizard.etsu.edu (Allen Garvin)
Subject: Re: Adventure Game Companies
Message-ID: <1993Jul19.172752.7861@ra.oc.com>
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Organization: East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 17:27:52 GMT
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In article <1993Jul16.123521.19325@bnr.ca> Mandatory Spurt <90404939@vax1.dcu.ie> writes:

   >MAGNETIC SCROLLS: English company that wrote adventure games with a very
   >powerful (but sometimes unusually picky) parser, and very nice 16 colour
   >hi-res pictures. Personally, I could never stand this company's products
   >but I was serverely prejudiced buy their first game (The Pawn) because
   the
   >game completely lacked an ending and many puzzles were quite illogical.

   >  Games Written:
   >          The Pawn
   >          Guild of Thieves
   >          The Corruption
   >          Fish
   >          Wonderland

   I think they also wrote a game called Jinxter.

What was Jinxter? I know they wrote a game that was a kind of trilogy-in-
one-package dealing with orcs. I know because I bought it. The reason
I bought it was because Guild of Thieves was one of the best adventure
games I'd ever played at the time, with the notable parser, nice pictures
(There was a skeleton with a chest, which I for a long time thought was
the skeleton's chest (anatomy) until I looked at the picture and saw a 
chest next to the skeleton :) and good puzzles (never got into the bank 
though). The orc game was lousy. I never played it much, and can't
even recall the title. 

Are these games still available anywhere? I had Guild of Thieves on Amiga,
and my amiga 1000 is long dead. I would like to get it again for my PC, 
and maybe the Pawn as well, though your criticism of it lessens my desire.

    -Allen

