The Hobbit: A Software Adventure

The Hobbit: A Software Adventure (1982)

by Beam Software, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Melbourne House
Genres:Adventure
Themes:Fantasy
Game modes:Single player
Story:A ground breaking text-adventure video game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
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user avatar@WilhelmWuser avatar@WilhelmW
February 08, 2025
Jeu textuel en anglais auquel j'ai joué sur Amstrad CPC 6128 J'ai adoré y jouer, en tatônnant puisque je ne connaissais que trois mots d'anglais... Les illustrations étaient sympas, une bonne récompense pour l'avancée dans le jeu. J'ai découvert après qu'elles étaient réalisées d'après les dessins originaux de Tokien. Je n'ai pas pu finir le jeu à l'époque à cause d'un bug, j'y rejouerai avec plaisir !
Truly a terrible game, even for its time, in that it was actually impossible to complete due to a bug in the programming (at least in the IBM-PC version I had). Hard to imagine how this got shipped when a playtester with a walkthrough could otherwise have completed the entire game in 30 minutes or so. Perhaps someone just sent the wrong floppy disk to the publisher. I don't know if a fixed version was ever released. Also annoyingly your companions Thorin and Gandalf operated with their own rather random pseudo-AI, wandering in and out of rooms and often getting themselves killed out of view. It did loosely follow the plot of the book. On the plus side, it came with an actual physical paperback copy of 'The Hobbit' in the box, which was my introduction to the works of Tolkien when I was still quite young, and which still sits on my shelf 40 years later, though the game it came with is long gone. Imagine a game manual/hint guide that is 287 pages long! It would be interesting if GOG could replicate that via digital assets, if nothing else.
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