Mystery Fun House (game)
Encyclopedia
Mystery Fun House was a text-based adventure program written by Scott Adams
, "Adventure 7" in the series released by Adventure International
. The game setting was a fun house that the player had to explore in order to locate a set of secret plans, solving puzzles along the way. Mystery Fun House was produced in only one week and was among the less easy games in the series.
, this text-based adventure game was one of many from Scott Adams.
Gameplay involved moving from location to location, picking up any objects found there, and using them somewhere else to unlock puzzles. Commands took the form of verb
and noun
, e.g. "Take Wrench". Movement from location to location was limited to North, South, East, West, Up and Down.
The player of this game must navigate through a maze and a shooting gallery, charm a mermaid, and turn off a steam calliope
that is so loud the player's instructions are misunderstood – a reference to the "Loud Room" in Zork I
. Violent solutions to puzzles are discouraged by a gameplay feature which sees the player character
ejected from the fun house by a bouncer whenever certain commands are typed.
's C64 Classix compilation for Windows and Mac CD-ROM.
Planned as a Sinclair Spectrum release.
Scott Adams (game designer)
Scott Adams is the co-founder, with ex-wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers....
, "Adventure 7" in the series released by Adventure International
Adventure International
Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...
. The game setting was a fun house that the player had to explore in order to locate a set of secret plans, solving puzzles along the way. Mystery Fun House was produced in only one week and was among the less easy games in the series.
Description
Published by Adventure InternationalAdventure International
Adventure International was a computer game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985, started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system...
, this text-based adventure game was one of many from Scott Adams.
Gameplay involved moving from location to location, picking up any objects found there, and using them somewhere else to unlock puzzles. Commands took the form of verb
Verb
A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word that in syntax conveys an action , or a state of being . In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive...
and noun
Noun
In linguistics, a noun is a member of a large, open lexical category whose members can occur as the main word in the subject of a clause, the object of a verb, or the object of a preposition .Lexical categories are defined in terms of how their members combine with other kinds of...
, e.g. "Take Wrench". Movement from location to location was limited to North, South, East, West, Up and Down.
The player of this game must navigate through a maze and a shooting gallery, charm a mermaid, and turn off a steam calliope
Calliope (music)
A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or more recently compressed air, through large whistles, originally locomotive whistles....
that is so loud the player's instructions are misunderstood – a reference to the "Loud Room" in Zork I
Zork I
Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I, later known as Zork I, is an interactive fiction computer game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom in 1980. It was the first game in the popular Zork trilogy and was released for a wide range of...
. Violent solutions to puzzles are discouraged by a gameplay feature which sees the player character
Player character
A player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters...
ejected from the fun house by a bouncer whenever certain commands are typed.
Releases
Mystery Fun House was among a number of classic Scott Adams adventures made available for free download by non-profit gaming organisation Infinite Frontiers in 2003. It was also included as part of magnussoftMagnussoft
magnussoft Deutschland GmbH is a pan-European computer game developer and publisher. The company is seated near Dresden in the eastern region of Germany...
's C64 Classix compilation for Windows and Mac CD-ROM.
Planned as a Sinclair Spectrum release.
External links
- Mystery Fun House at World of SpectrumWorld of SpectrumWorld of Spectrum is a website devoted to cataloging and archiving material for the ZX Spectrum home computer popular in the 1980s, and has been officially endorsed by Amstrad which holds the rights to the ZX Spectrum brand...