Puszka Pandory
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A text adventure game written in Poland for the ZX Spectrum.
| Puszka Pandory | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Marcin Borkowski |
| Publisher(s) | n/a |
| Release date(s) | 1986 |
| Authoring system | Machine code |
| Platform(s) | Spectrum |
| Language(s) | Polish |
| License(s) | Commercial |
| Multimedia | |
| Color effects | none |
| Graphics | optional |
| Sound/Music | optional |
| Ratings | |
| Cruelty scale | Cruelty to be determined |
How It Begins
It has been decades since an apocalyptic world war, with the remaining humans trying to rebuild civilization. An old prophecy says that, somewhere on an island on the Pacific Ocean, there lies hidden a missile called "Pandora's Box", which will soon launch in order to destroy the remnants of humanity. You arrived onto the island in a helicopter in order to destroy this doomsday device, but you have been shot down by an automatic gun and barely managed to jump out on a parachute. You are now in an empty meadow. There is nothing in your inventory.
The game in total consists of 1600 locations, the vast majority of which are featureless and empty.
Versions
Original release (self-published)
- Puszka Pandory (Marcin Borkowski; 1986).
ENTER Computing release
- Puszka Pandory (Marcin Borkowski; publisher: ENTER Computing; 1987).
Limited collector's edition re-release
- Puszka Pandory (Marcin Borkowski; 26-Oct-2012).
- Available on the Poznań Game Arena fair.
- Limited edition: 100 copies produced.
- Released on cassette tape, in special can-shaped packaging. Also included was a manual and link to a website with Spectrum ROM download.
Trivia
- The game's title is the Polish name of the mythological "Pandora's Box", which literally translates to "Pandora's Can". (Hence the can-shaped packaging in the 2012 re-release).
Links
- Puszka Pandory - at World of Spectrum
- Puszka Pandory - at IFDB
- Puszka Pandory at MobyGames.
- Puszka Pandory at the Polish Wikipedia.
- Puszka Pandory (1986) - review by Mariusz Pisarski (in Polish.)