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Re: Can I ask a Q about an 80's Adventure game?
Posted By: gremlinn, on host 24.165.8.100
Date: Friday, July 22, 2005, at 21:59:10
In Reply To: Can I ask a Q about an 80's Adventure game? posted by Dormouse on Friday, July 22, 2005, at 16:59:20:

> Hope this is OK - please forgive me if not - I'm not familiar with this forum but I have found it on the rinkworks site, so here goes!
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> Does anyone remember an adventure game called 'Snowball'? I think it appeared in the mid 80's. We played it in a lunch-time club at school. I think it was supposed to the world's 'biggest' adventure game at the time, having over a thousand locations if I remember rightly.
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> If anyone does remember it, do you know if it's now available on the net - we never did get to the end!? We used to play it on an old BBC micro computer!

I've read that it had about 7000 locations, but only about 200 of them were distinct and the rest were part of a giant maze. It seems you can download it from this site, but you'll probably need some sort of emulator depending on which file you get.


Link: Snowball at Baf's Guide

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