Halls of the Things
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Halls of the Things is a ZX Spectrum
video game developed by Design Design and released by Crystal Computing
in 1983
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In this game you have to guide your hero through seven floors of a tower, searching for seven rings, each floor is a complex maze of corridors and rooms. Once you have the rings you must then find the magical key hidden in the dungeon, this key opens the drawbridge which will allow you to escape. To hinder your progress, the things will attack you, but you are armed with a sword, arrows, fireballs and lightning to aid you in your quest.
The game was re-released by both Design Design Software and Firebird Software.
A sequel, Return of the Things, was released in 1984.
ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...
video game developed by Design Design and released by Crystal Computing
Crystal Computing
Crystal Computing, later renamed Design Design, was a British video game developer founded in 1982 by Chris Clarke and Graham Stafford while students at the University of Manchester. Neil Mottershead, Simon Brattel and Martin Horsley, joined the company as it expanded...
in 1983
1983 in video gaming
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In this game you have to guide your hero through seven floors of a tower, searching for seven rings, each floor is a complex maze of corridors and rooms. Once you have the rings you must then find the magical key hidden in the dungeon, this key opens the drawbridge which will allow you to escape. To hinder your progress, the things will attack you, but you are armed with a sword, arrows, fireballs and lightning to aid you in your quest.
The game was re-released by both Design Design Software and Firebird Software.
A sequel, Return of the Things, was released in 1984.
Reviews
The game was well received when it was released, reviews can be found in the following magazines....- "Excellent and dangerously addictive it could change the Spectrum games scene overnight". Sinclair UserSinclair UserSinclair User, often abbreviated SU, was a magazine dedicated to the Sinclair Research range of home computers, most specifically the ZX Spectrum...
- "Spectacular. One of the best games i've seen, finely balanced between simplicity and addictiveness - superb graphics and colour - I CAN'T RECOMMEND IT HIGHLY ENOUGH". Popular Computing WeeklyPopular Computing WeeklyPopular Computing Weekly was a computer magazine in the UK published from the early 1980s until the early 1990s. It was sometimes referred to as PCW ....
- ZX Computing
- Computer and Video GamesComputer and video gamesA video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but following popularization of the term "video game", it now implies any type of...
Game of the Year
ZX Computing magazine, featured Halls of the Things as the best game of 1983.External links
- Halls of the Things original source code at Design Design
- Halls of the Things Remake at RetroSpec
- Another Halls of the Things Remake at whatisblueandfurry
- Halls of the Things at MobyGames