Re: Pubs in ZX Spectrum games
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:29 am
There were a couple games set in the town that I grew up in, Dundee, Scotland, that featured LOTS of pubs.
Pub Crawl
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=10089
This was a text adventure where (from memory) the goal was to eventually have sex with a woman while going around various pubs in Dundee. I had a pirated copy of this when I was young and unfortunately it seems to be Missing in Action, which is a real shame. As a 12 year old it seemed very raunchy and quite cool being able to walk around Dundee while getting drunk. I'd love to play it again, but there seems to be absolutely no trace of it!
Pub Crawl II
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=10088
I didn't play this until years later via emulation, but this is basically more like a "role playing game" version of it - that is it's basically the same game as Pub Crawl but you actually control your character walking around Dundee. While it's a bit more playable, it loses some of the charm by not having any descriptive text.
Thankfully this isn't MIA!
If anyone has the original Pub Crawl, then please, please, please upload it so I can revisit those memories!!
Pub Crawl
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=10089
This was a text adventure where (from memory) the goal was to eventually have sex with a woman while going around various pubs in Dundee. I had a pirated copy of this when I was young and unfortunately it seems to be Missing in Action, which is a real shame. As a 12 year old it seemed very raunchy and quite cool being able to walk around Dundee while getting drunk. I'd love to play it again, but there seems to be absolutely no trace of it!
Pub Crawl II
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=10088
I didn't play this until years later via emulation, but this is basically more like a "role playing game" version of it - that is it's basically the same game as Pub Crawl but you actually control your character walking around Dundee. While it's a bit more playable, it loses some of the charm by not having any descriptive text.
Thankfully this isn't MIA!
If anyone has the original Pub Crawl, then please, please, please upload it so I can revisit those memories!!