Released
1983
Also For
BBC Micro, Browser, Colour Genie, Commodore 16, Plus/4, Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Electron, Oric, TRS-80, VIC-20, ZX Spectrum
Published by
Channel 8 Software

Genre
Adventure
Setting
Fantasy
Gameplay
Interactive Fiction / Text Adventure
Perspective
1st-person
Visual
Fixed / Flip-screen
Interface
Text Parser

Description

Your mission is to retrieve the Golden Baton, a priceless artifact worshipped by your race for eons. It maintains balance and keeps peace in the land, but now it has been stolen from the Palace of King Ferrenuil! Many have searched for it, none have returned. The player will face wolves and crabs, navigate a boat trip, and deal with a magical crystal. Most of the way, you use one object in some way to gain another.

Golden Baton uses the Scott Adams adventure engine, and thus has the same features - a basic 2-word parser, limited vocabulary (object names plus standard words such as EXAMINE, WEAR and DROP), and brief descriptions. A Help command is also available which provides hints. Although primitive by later standards, these compare favourably to other interactive fiction of the time.

From Mobygames.com. Original Entry