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4K Adventure

Author:John Metcalf
Genre:Fantasy
Released:1995
Review:

A very small fantasy game - in fact, the executable is exactly 4096 bytes in size. (The zip is larger than that because it's bundled with a few other programs and some documentation.) Considering that limitation, it has a surprising amount of nicely evocative description. Very simple, two-word parser, incomplete direction lists, no "save game" feature. The premise that you're a "black dwarf" trying to recover the stolen orb that keeps your land in eternal winter has the interesting implication that the protagonist is a Bad Guy, but the game really doesn't have room to expand on this.

Rating: **

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (03 Jul 2000)

Downloads:
4ka.zip (15.27 KB)
MS-DOS executable


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