| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE (c) LEVEL 9/MOSAIC ★ |
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CURIOUS The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole is a curious affair. The book/radio program/television program featured gentle, reflective humour and accurate observation of the quirks of parents and children. Not the sort of stuff you expect to see translated into a computer program. Hard to describe exactly what this program is, for an adventure game it lacks complex puzzles and text input, for the sake of simplicity the vague term interactive fiction will have to do. The screen looks like an graphics adventure - a series of simple graphics at the top of the screen illustrate the current situation, eg, when Adrian is wondering about paint you get a paint pot at the top of the screen. However, whilst a great wadge of text scrolls past in the bottom two thirds of the screen, your interaction is limited to choosing between three options. Options are selected simply by pressing a number key. And so it goes really; lots of moderately wacky text based around the books which occasionally stops to ask you between three options for what happens next, the end objective being to become a model schoolboy liked by everyone. I must admit I found the whole thing rather pointless. Restricting course of action so much may mean more room for text but it greatly reduces any real sense of involvement or challenge. Perhaps this is the view of someone expecting an adventure, but I find it hard to imagine that anyone could find the program involving. Perhaps the format would make it suitable for very young children but then I'm not sure they would appreciate the subtleties of the text. A curious release.
PopularComputingWeekly 1985-10-24 |
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Page créée en 192 millisecondes et consultée 3682 fois L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
