ScuzzBlog: Diaries December 2022 Entry 8th December 2022: Post 1: Amstrad - The Colour of Magic. Amstrad - The Colour of Magic. It is always nice to trip across a bit of fantasy whilst sifting through old retro games. For some reason I had not noticed this particular gem during my gaming adventures and so I decided to fire up the CPC464 and have a look. The Colour of Magic is a Terry Pratchett fantasy comedy novel from the year 1983. This was the first book in the Discworld set. The first printing of this book was of a limited edition and so when I realised the video game of the same name was pretty much a complete version of the book, I kinda got a little excited. For those not familiar with Discworld you have to appreciate that the story is set on a planet sized flat disc being carried through space on the back of four gargantuan elephants who are actually standing on the shell of a giant star turtle. Bonkers. In the game you play Rincewind a youthful wizard who is charged with guiding the very four eyed Twoflower , who is Discworld's first tourist. The game is the creation of Delta 4 and released by Piranha. The named authors are Judith Child, Fergus McNeill and Colin Bucket. The game tape loaded very strange as I completed a very very long process only to simply get to nothing. No response other than a message about having to load the many parts. I then tried side 2 [ numbered 3/4] and had a failed first strike. The next program appeared to be for Game 1 and loaded no problem. It is a basic text adventure where you build up a rapport with the computer by inserting text that you may think will get a response. The fun is trying to guess what you need to do. Anyhoo, I do like fantasy and was tempted to research further any other work in the series. Just a note that the instructions are on the back of the 'fly-sheet'. That was my very first challenge. Amstrad - The Colour of Magic.

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