A text adventure in which the player discovers on a world-wide journey who has stolen the peculiar inheritance, the painting Parrish's 'Earthly Delights', that was left by the recently died uncle. Your favorite Uncle, from whom you haven't heard from in years has just died. He left you a peculiar inheiritance: a painting of a beautiful woman. The following night, the painting is stolen, sending you on a world-wide journey to discover who has the painting, and why.
AdventureMysteryinteractive fictiontext adventureMac, DOS, Apple II
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the game
- Platforms
- Mac, DOS, Apple II
- Developer
- Datamost
- Publisher
- Datamost
- Released
- December 31, 1984
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Text
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