Circus

The seventh in the Mysterious Adventure series of illustrated text adventures by Brian Howarth. Your car has broken down, miles from anywhere. Heading off in search of a gas station, 3 miles down the road you come upon what appears to be a Circus tent, nestled in a small valley. Sounds and music come from inside. As you reach the gate, suddenly there is complete silence. You walk fearfully towards the entrance of the tent, wondering what exactly is going on here. Maybe if you are lucky, you can find some gas here...

Around this time, the game engine was replaced with a far more powerful one. Now the games accepted complete sentences. You can hit ENTER to switch between graphics and all text. This made them somewhat easier to play and less frustrating.

Added February 13, 2021
Published By Digital Fantasia
Adventuresoft UK Ltd.
Paxman Promotions Ltd.
Molimerx Ltd.
Channel 8 Software
Developed By Digital Fantasia
Front Cover (United Kingdom) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Back Cover (United Kingdom) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Media (United Kingdom) (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Front Cover (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Back Cover (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Media (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
IGDB Cover from igdb.com
Starting location, text only. (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Starting location with pictures. (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
I went south and found a road. (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Somebody's car (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Looking at the trunk of the car. (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
The first question the game asks is this (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
This screen displays while the game loads (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The game starts here. (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Here's a road. It's the first real location in the game (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The circus tent (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
here's the car that needs fixing (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The game is not big on descriptive text of any kind. After a while it stopped displaying pictures too and adopted a spilt screen text approach (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com

Year of Release:
1982

Genre(s):
Interactive Fiction Traditional

Graphic Style:
2D

Camera View:
First-Person

Control Type:
Text Parser

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