Christmas at the Microfair

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Christmas at the Microfair

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Christmas at the Microfair
The Text Adventure
By Peter Shaw

Distributed as a BASIC listing in the 9th Microfair showguide, the event which was held in December 1983.

Credit goes to Garry Francis who typed up the listing from scans provided from Gilsoft's Tim Gilbert's copy of the showguide.

The game is a promotional text adventure almost identical to The House that James Built from Peter's book 'Creating Adventure Programs on the ZX Spectrum', except the room descriptions and monsters have been altered to be themed around the people and locations of the Microfair.

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Very nice!
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8BitAG wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2019 2:14 pm Image
Are scans of the show guide available for sharing?
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Courtesy of Tim Gilbert of Gilsoft...

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(This is just a selection of pages from the guide, I think)
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