Stuart Smith's Adventure Construction Set (1984)
Genres:Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Simulator
Themes:Fantasy, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player
Story:Play 8 great adventures... Or write your own.
Rivers of Light- A new Stuart Smith epic.
Set at the dawn of human history in Ancient Egypt and the Near East, this new epic adventure from the author of Ali Baba and Return of Heracles embraces a map containing over 140 different regions and rooms, plus a cast of hundreds and enough challenging and ingenious puzzles to delight even the most demanding adventurer.
7 complete mini adventures: There's a simple tutorial adventure for first timers, plus one mystery story, one original adaptation from Alice In Wonderland, a historical drama (you help Washington cross the Delaware), and 3 more called Deep Dark Dungeon, In the Nazi Castle, and Save the Galaxy.
3 basic construction sets included: You get a Fantasy Set, a Spy/Mystery Set and a Science Fiction Set. Each comes with graphics, music and sound effects, a wardrobe full of creature and character costumes, and a prop room crammed with objects and special effects. Do as much or as little work as you like. Build the whole adventure yourself of ask the computer to do it for you.
A canvas as big as your imagination: Each adventure can contain up to 500 different creatures, one main map and up to 15 map regions with up to 16 rooms and 300 props per region, plus up to 335 different text messages to give your adventures texture and depth. Use the parts in the 3 basic construction sets or make your own.Show more
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I found this in the late 1980s for just $15, and it was a huge bargain at that price. When one of the discs failed, I had to spend $7.50 to replace it, and that was well worth it. I got endless enjoyment from creating my own games and sharing them with friends. ACS is ahead of its time, allowing multiplayer with up to 4 players as well as the unique ability to automatically finish a game you've partially made or to create a new one from scratch.
I had a cool summer making games for my little brother and some neighborhood kids. I was in the middle of coming up with a 125 object epic when an unhappy love affair hit and then I entered the service and bought an Amiga and that killed the project.
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