1984 Scorpio Gamesworld (UK)
by Barry Jones
One of the first efforts from Barry Jones, the author of Alcatraz. He made several games like this one and although this is not the most original, it's the one I most like to play, together with the looney Happy Hour. I'm not sure if this game was written in Basic, but it looks like so. And along with Alcatraz I and II by Barry Jones, well, like with all Barry Jones games, good ideas turn into boring, sleepy moments. I really wanted to like almost all his games, because they all look cute, with nice ideas, but unfortunately they are are painfully slow, and that, of course, kills the mood most of the times. Castle Quest ain't different. But it is still a nice entertaining piece of software, worthy of checking out.
