CRL Group plc is a defunct British

Great Britain

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 video game development and publishing company. Originally CRL stood for "Computer Rentals Ltd.". It was based in King's Yard, London and run by Clem Chambers

Clem Chambers

Clement Hadrian Chambers is a British entrepreneur, author and journalist, known for his involvement in ADVFN, formerly known as the Advanced Financial Network.-Business career:...

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They released a number of notable adventure games

Interactive fiction

Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games. In common usage, the term refers to text...

 based on horror stories, such as Dracula

Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...

, Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

"Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer, that was disseminated in the...

 and Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel about a failed experiment that produced a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first...

. Dracula and Frankenstein were awarded "15" certificates by the British Board of Film Censors

British Board of Film Classification

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 for their graphics depicting bloody scenes, while Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper (adventure game)

Jack the Ripper is a text adventure game released by CRL in for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum home computers. The game is based on the notorious "Jack the Ripper" murders of the 1880s.- Plot :...

and Wolfman

Wolfman (game)

Wolfman is a text adventure game released by CRL in for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum home computers.- Gameplay :The game is a standard text adventure with graphics in some locations to set the scene...

gained "18" certificates

18 certificate

The 18 certificate is issued by the British Board of Film Classification to state that, in its opinion, a film, video recording, or game should not be seen or purchased by a person under 18 years old....

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CRL-published games that achieved critical success include Tau Ceti and Academy

Academy (video game)

Academy is an action/simulation computer game for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Amiga It was released in 1987 by CRL. It achieved critical success in the year it was released.-Gameplay:...

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External links

• CRL Group at Moby games