Strange Odyssey 1979
Developed by Adventure International, Adventure International
- Puzzle, Adventure, Science fiction
While orbiting an asteroid your space ship malfunctions. In this text adventure you have to find five alien artefacts - and a way home.
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Earnest, plot-driven, classical in form and cool.
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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About the game
- Platforms
- BBC Microcomputer System, Atari 8-bit, PC-9800 Series, PC-8800 Series, Dragon 32/64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, TRS-80 Color Computer, Acorn Electron, Commodore 16, Apple II, TRS-80, FM-7, Commodore Plus/4, Texas Instruments TI-99
- Developer
- Adventure International, Adventure International
- Publisher
- Commodore Business Machines, Inc., Commodore Electronics Ltd., Texas Instruments Incorporated, StarCraft, Adventure International
- Released
- December 31, 1979
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Text
- Time to beat
- 6 h main story
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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