Blogging through 1982 "The Hobbit" game

[vivdunstan]

Good read for Tolkien and retro computer gaming fans: Jason Dyer's "All the Adventures" blog plays through The Hobbit 1982 text adventure / interactive fiction game from Melbourne House.

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[vivdunstan]

Glad it brought back memories!

I played it on my C64, and remember getting stuck in the Mirkwood section. So quite far in, but I definitely didn't solve it.

Did your copy of the game come with a copy of the book too? Mine did, though I already had one, having first read it many years previously!

I still write new interactive fiction games myself - there's a very thriving amateur community, since the 1990s especially. It's a bit shocking for old timers when new folks come along who're born in the 2000s! While some of us can remember the days of 8-bit IF games, or even earlier.

[igenlode]

I don't think there was a book included, but since we already had my father's old copy in the house there wouldn't have been any need for one anyway, and it would have gone out to the next jumble sale :-)
But I think the game came in a job-lot and had probably lost its original packaging at an earlier stage.