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Adventure Game Scene of the Day - Wednesday 18 January 2017
It’s Alan Alexander Milne’s birthday today so here’s a screenshot from Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood .
Based on A. A. Milne’s famous bear the game was created by Al Lowe for Sierra-Online & released in 1984 way before my gaming years!
awesome idea for a scene.. but may i say Wikipedia is wrong (again) about its release date, the initial release was ‘84
Thanks Advie - I should have paid more attention to info in Moby Games so I’ll edit it!
Did you play it? as I couldn’t fathom out whether it was specifically aimed at children or for a greater age range of audience?
Thanks Advie - I should have paid more attention to info in Moby Games so I’ll edit it!
Did you play it? as I couldn’t fathom out whether it was specifically aimed at children or for a greater age range of audience?
no, i missed it.. i only knew about very late. i had abandoned text adventure then
I can’t remember the exact chronology. But in 1984 the computers were pretty primitive. I’m not sure that the 8088 processor was in wide use at the time. Although it would be my guess that the game was intended to play on that machine. If so, the game was probably unplayable on a “modern” machine by 1988. The only color monitors available at the time were tiny 8” screen RGB monitors. (A far cry from the 28” flat-screen I now enjoy.) It’s surprising to me that your screenshot looks as good as it does.
Edit: I just looked it up and the 8088 was first produced in 1979. Wiki says it was in production through 1990, although with no specific end date. So, I guess if you started playing games before 1990, and still owned your first IBM, or IBM clone PC, you could have played this game up until the point that Intel put out the next series of 80188 chips.
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This was the first game I owned! I loved going around the wood collecting all the items. I played it on our Commodore 64…
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