The Jones family and Jeff Minter got into publishing ZX Spectrum games together in 1982 using the Llamasoft label, but some months in, Jeff was not too pleased at the relationship, and so they went their separate ways, as recounted by him in this story that really shows a dark side to games publishing.
While Jeff carried on with Llamasoft, the father-and-son Joneses established the apostrophe-abusing Interceptor Micro's (sic), which became a kind of holding company for lots of computer games and media businesses across the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Although they couldn't let a grudge go, by childishly insulting Jeff in a few of their releases.
We're here to look at the best game by Interceptor Software. It's mainly text adventures and arcade knock-offs...
After Shock
Cuddly Cuburt
Forest At World's End, The
Halaga
Heroes Of Karn
Jewels Of Babylon, The
Message From Andromeda
Plummet
Tales Of The Arabian Nights
Tiler
Warlord
Wheelin Wallie
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1 Jewels Of Babylon
2 Message From Andromeda
3 Tales Of The Arabian Nights
2 Message From Andromeda
3 Tales Of The Arabian Nights
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1 - Tales of Arabian Nights
2 - Heroes of Karn
3 - Jewels of Babylon
2 - Heroes of Karn
3 - Jewels of Babylon
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Don't think i played a single one of these, maybe Forest At Worlds End and/or Heroes Of Karn but not certain.
No vote from me.
No vote from me.
I don't have anything cool to put here, so i'll just be off now to see a priest with yeast stuck between his teeth and his friend called Keith who's a hairpiece thief...
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The only one of these I've played was Tales of the Arabian Nights.
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1. Tales Of The Arabian Nighys
2. Heroes Of Karn
3. Message From Andromeda
2. Heroes Of Karn
3. Message From Andromeda
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Me too. Those adventures look interesting though, may have to try one or two.
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Tales Of The Arabian Nights is the winner in this poll, with 4 votes.
In second place, The Jewels Of Babylon, with 2 votes.
Joint third place, 1 vote each: After Shock; Halaga and Warlord.
Over on the proportional system...
Tales Of The Arabian Nights 7
Jewels Of Babylon 4
Heroes Of Karn 4
Message From Andromeda 3
In second place, The Jewels Of Babylon, with 2 votes.
Joint third place, 1 vote each: After Shock; Halaga and Warlord.
Over on the proportional system...
Tales Of The Arabian Nights 7
Jewels Of Babylon 4
Heroes Of Karn 4
Message From Andromeda 3
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