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Waxworks

Part of Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures

Authors:Brian Howarth and Cliff J. Ogden
Publisher:Adventure International
Genres:Horror
Mystery
Released:1983
License:Former commercial
Review:

You've managed to fall asleep in a wax museum, and you've been locked inside for the night. Now you have to find an escape as the wax figures begin to come to life around you. Some spooky moments, but a little too campy to be truly called horror. This is a Scott Adams-era adventure, with all that implies (two-word parser, no description, and heavy nostalgia value). It's not a classic, but it's certainly not terrible either.

Rating: **

Reviewed by R. Serena Wakefield (29 Jul 2000)

Play Online:Play it at ifiction.org
Downloads:
atari8gm.zip (790.45 KB)
Atari 800 executable
C64adv.zip (2.78 MB)
Commodore executable (optional graphics)
mystsoft.zip (533.94 KB)
Spectrum executable (optional graphics)
zx.zip (2.88 MB)
Spectrum executable (optional graphics)
mysterious_inform.zip (108.66 KB)
Z-code 5 executable (ported by Paul David Doherty and Bjorn Gustavsson, no graphics)
mysterious_z6.zip (907.01 KB)
Z-code 6 executable (ported by Colin Davies, optional graphics)
mysterious.tar.gz (48.00 KB)
ScottFree executable
jgunness.zip (159.04 KB)
walkthrough
Sols2.zip (38.22 KB)
solution


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