The Pen and the Dark |
Aliases | The Unorthodox Engineers: The Pen and the Dark |
Release Date | 1984 |
Original Publisher | Mosaic Publishing Ltd (UK) |
Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K |
Language | English |
Genre | Adventure Game: Text-Only |
Max. Players | 1 |
Original Price | £9.95 |
Features | Bookware |
Tie-in Licences | The Unorthodox Engineers (Book) from Colin Kapp (UK) |
Other Platforms | BBC Micro, Commodore 64 |
Martijn's WoS score | 45% (4 votes) |
Keith Campbell (UK) | - ? | ||
Sacha Z | - Inlay/Poster Art |
Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
PenAndTheDarkThe(different).tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English | - (different) | |
PenAndTheDarkThe.tap.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (???) | English | ||
PenAndTheDarkThe.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K | (None) | English |
Filename | Size | Release | Type | Language | Comments | |
PenAndTheDarkThe.scr | 6,912 | Original | Loading screen | |||
PenAndTheDarkThe.gif | 3,547 | Original | Running screen | |||
PenAndTheDarkThe.jpg | 271,377 | Original | Inlay - Front | |||
PenAndTheDarkThe.txt | 74,657 | Original | Instructions | English |
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