| The Dogboy |
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| Aliases | King |
| Release Date | 1991 |
| Original Publisher | G.I. Games (UK) |
| Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Adventure Game: Text/Illustrated |
| Max. Players | 1 |
| Authored with | Professional Adventure Writer |
| Martijn's WoS score | 55% (4 votes) |
Standalone re-releases
| #1 - Zenobi Software (UK) | (1992) |
Authors/Contributors
| St. Bride's School (Ireland) | - ? |
Remarks
| Although this game was mentioned in news from 1987 as coming from Destiny Software under the title "King", it doesn't seem to have been released until it was picked up by indie-publisher GI Games in 1991. |
Remarks
| Based on poetry by Marc Pierson. |
Compilations
| Full version in | Even Yet Another Big Disk | (1991) | by Zenobi Software (UK) | ||
| Full version in | ZX-Spectrum Vega | (2015/Apr/24) | by Retro Computers Ltd (UK) |
Main File Downloads
| Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
 | DogboyThe(G.I.Games).tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English | |
| DogboyThePart1.z80.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | - part 1 | |
| DogboyThePart2.z80.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | - part 2 | |
| DogboyThe(ZenobiSoftware).tzx.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English | |
| DogboyThe(ZenobiSoftware).mgt.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English | ||
| DogboyThe(ZenobiSoftware).dsk.zip | #1 | ZX-Spectrum 128 +3 | (None) | English |
Additional File Downloads
| Filename | Size | Release | Type | Language | Comments | |
| DogboyThe(G.I.Games).scr | 6,912 | Original | Loading screen | |||
| DogboyThe.gif | 3,361 | Original | Running screen | |||
| DogboyThe(GIGames)_Front.jpg | 123,711 | Original | Inlay - Front | - Single jewel case | ||
| DogboyThe.txt | 3,010 | Original | Instructions | English | ||
| DogboyThe.jpg | 147,680 | Original | Scanned instructions | English | ||
| dogboy.zip | 0 | Original | RZX playback file | - Recorded by Paul E. Collins (with rollback) | ||
| DogboyThe(ZenobiSoftware)(EN)_Scan.jpg | 273,724 | #1 | Scanned instructions | English |
Magazine References
| Crash | issue v.1 #50-1988/Mar | page 111 | - Preview | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #24-1987/Dec | page 7 | - News/Note | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #36-1988/Dec | page 73 | - Preview |
Links
| CASA | (Information - in English) | |
| RZX Archive | (Information - in English) | |
| The Tipshop | (Information - in English) | |
| UVL | (Information - in English) | |
| Spectrum 2.0 | (User Reviews) | |
| The TZX Vault | (Software Preservation) | |
| ZX-Art | (Spectrum Graphics) | |
| ZXInfo | (ZXDB Front End) | |
| Every Game Going | (Multi-Platform Archive) | |
| New World Of Spectrum | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| Original World Of Spectrum | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| World Of Spectrum Classic | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| Spectrum Computing | (MAIN VIEW) |
