{"id":31077,"date":"2023-05-02T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T18:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=31077"},"modified":"2023-05-11T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:52:49","slug":"micro-adventurer-june-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/05\/02\/micro-adventurer-june-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro Adventurer (June 1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FMicro_Adventurer%2FMicro+Adventurer+-+08&amp;twg_show=MicroAdventurer0800001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31080\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MicroAdventurer0800001-745x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/magazines\/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines%2FMicro_Adventurer%2FMicro+Adventurer+-+08&amp;twg_show=MicroAdventurer0800001.jpg\">Micro Adventurer &#8211; Issue Number 8 &#8211; June 1984 <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Micro Adventurer was an early computer games magazine published in the U.K. that specifically covered adventure games, war\/strategy games and simulations. The June 1984 issue includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Letters<\/b> &#8211; Letters from readers about adventure games on the VIC 20, The Hobbit on the Spectrum, the conversion of The Hobbit for the BBC, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>News<\/b> &#8211; Level 9 provides clue sheets for its adventure games; Lords of Midnight from Beyond; Shards Software releases various games for the Spectrum and Dragon; Commodore offers Zork trilogy on disk for the Commodore 64; Valhalla released for the Commodore 64; and much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Maze programming<\/b> &#8211; A guide to creating mazes with several programming examples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>War gaming<\/b> &#8211; A detailed look at a couple of recent war games including Shiloh from SSI for the Apple, Atari, Commodore 64, TRS-80, and IBM PC and Tigers in the Snow also from SSI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Blake&#8217;s 7<\/b> &#8211; A look back at this U.K. sci-fi TV series which had recently ended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"attachment wp-att-31079\" href=\"\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=31079\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31079\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MicroAdventurer0800003-745x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Software Inventory<\/b> &#8211; A look at new games including Wheel of Fortune (BBC B), Castle Blackstar (Spectrum), North Sea Oil (Dragon 32), The Lost Gnomes (Spectrum), Encounter (Sharp MZ-700), Knight Driver (Spectrum), Marooned! (VIC-20), Armageddon (Commodore 64), Micro Command (Spectrum), The Greedy Dwarf (BBC B), and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Basicoding<\/b> &#8211; A BASIC program to help you create your own adventure games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Bookware<\/b> &#8211; A look at games based on books including The Hobbit, Escape from Arkaron and The Pen and the Dark, Besieged!, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and Into the Empire among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Creating adventures<\/b> &#8211; A detailed look at The Quill, software that you can use to create your own adventure games.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Your Adventures<\/b> &#8211; A BASIC type-in adventure games submitted by a reader called Skeleton for Dracula.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Adventure Help<\/b> &#8211; Questions from readers about Colossal Adventure as well as some recommendations for adventure games including Urban Upstart, Valhalla, Knight&#8217;s Quest and Quest. Plus other adventure game help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Competition Corner<\/b> &#8211; Win a copy of Valhalla for the Spectrum by solving the puzzle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31078\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/MicroAdventurer0800048-745x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Micro Adventurer &#8211; Issue Number 8 &#8211; June 1984 Micro Adventurer was an early computer games magazine published in the U.K. that specifically covered adventure games, war\/strategy games and simulations. The June 1984 issue includes the following: Letters &#8211; Letters from readers about adventure games on the VIC 20, The Hobbit on the Spectrum, the conversion of The Hobbit for the BBC, and more. News &#8211; Level 9 provides clue sheets for its adventure games; Lords of Midnight from Beyond; Shards Software releases various games for the Spectrum and Dragon; Commodore offers Zork trilogy on disk for the Commodore 64; Valhalla released for the Commodore 64; and much more. Maze programming &#8211; A guide to creating mazes with several programming examples. War gaming &#8211; A detailed look at a couple of recent war games including Shiloh from SSI for the Apple, Atari, Commodore 64, TRS-80, and IBM PC and Tigers in the Snow also from SSI. Blake&#8217;s 7 &#8211; A look back at this U.K. sci-fi TV series which had recently ended. Software Inventory &#8211; A look at new games including Wheel of Fortune (BBC B), Castle Blackstar (Spectrum), North Sea Oil (Dragon 32), The Lost Gnomes (Spectrum), Encounter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[2362,2524],"class_list":["post-31077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","category-retro-games","tag-retrocomputing","tag-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31125,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31077\/revisions\/31125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}