Spellcasting 301: Spring Break
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The text adventure game Spellcasting 301: Spring Break is the third and last installment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky
during his time at Legend Entertainment
. All three games in the series tell the story of young Ernie Eaglebeak, a student at the prestigious Sorcerer University, progressing through his studies, learning the arcanes of magic, taking part in student life, occasionally saving the world as he knows it - and last but not least, having his way with any beautiful women he can get his hands on.
version of the Legend
interactive fiction
interface, as well as capable of utilizing the sound card to play both sound effects and music.
Unlike the previous two parts, whose title pages resembled their box covers, the title page of Spellcasting 301 shows only the game's title on plain-blue background, whereas the box cover showed a girl in a bikini reclining on a floating tiger-striped air mattress.
Steve Meretzky
Steven Eric Meretzky is an American computer game developer, with dozens of titles to his credit. He has been involved in almost every aspect of game development, from design to production to quality assurance and box design...
during his time at Legend Entertainment
Legend Entertainment
Legend Entertainment was an American developer of computer games, best known for their complex, distinctive adventure titles throughout the 1990s....
. All three games in the series tell the story of young Ernie Eaglebeak, a student at the prestigious Sorcerer University, progressing through his studies, learning the arcanes of magic, taking part in student life, occasionally saving the world as he knows it - and last but not least, having his way with any beautiful women he can get his hands on.
Technical notes
This is the first, and as it has turned out the only, Spellcasting game to use the 256-colour VGAVideo Graphics Array
Video Graphics Array refers specifically to the display hardware first introduced with the IBM PS/2 line of computers in 1987, but through its widespread adoption has also come to mean either an analog computer display standard, the 15-pin D-subminiature VGA connector or the 640×480 resolution...
version of the Legend
Legend Entertainment
Legend Entertainment was an American developer of computer games, best known for their complex, distinctive adventure titles throughout the 1990s....
interactive fiction
Interactive fiction
Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games. In common usage, the term refers to text...
interface, as well as capable of utilizing the sound card to play both sound effects and music.
Unlike the previous two parts, whose title pages resembled their box covers, the title page of Spellcasting 301 shows only the game's title on plain-blue background, whereas the box cover showed a girl in a bikini reclining on a floating tiger-striped air mattress.