Author Name: BoingBoing
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A look back at the 1982 THE HOBBIT text adventure video game
Date: 2021-03-29 13:35:04+00:00

This was a while before my time and an amazing discovery for me as an adult later taking an interest in old games.

This article is a must-read because Tolkien here was just a license to shoehorn into the text-based open world sim they’d made, inasfar as anything on such primitive hardware might get those terms applied. It was conceptually way ahead of its time, and might have been a versatile engine for IF. But by all accounts (including this one) it was so difficult to debug, it being 1981 and written in Z80 assembly, that everyone seems to have fled game development the instant it was done, and its use seems to have been limited to a couple of Tolkien sequels.

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