Showing posts with label The Caves of Windsor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Caves of Windsor. Show all posts

Monday, January 24, 2011

The Caves of Windsor

About 30 years ago, when I was a teen, I bought a Commodore VIC-20 computer. I was on it every minute of the day.

After a few months, I ended up writing a text adventure game called The Caves of Windsor. The goal was to get the gold from the caves to save the town.

Ok, it wasn't that great, but I was pretty proud of it at the time. It came on a cassette (!) and was sold for $14.95. My mother designed the package artwork, and a local computer store printed them and sold them. I think they sold 14 in all!

In college I started to write the sequel, Escape from Windsor Castle, but never finished it.

Recently, I bought a Commodore C64 computer off of eBay and decided to see what the game looked like. The C64 has a wider screen, so the text alignment is a little off, but it still played.

My, have games changed in 30 years.