Four Minutes to Midnight is a post-apocalyptic text adventure with a twist. The game takes place in the United States in the not so distant future and the premise is that there has been an outbreak of a deadly bacteria strain. The twist is that the player can in a true RPG fashion, gather a party of adventurers in an otherwise classic text adventure to help along with the quest at hand. Different members can have different skills that help with the problems the player encounters. The objective is to lead your party of five survivors across the devastated United States to sanctuary.
A text adventure that was later re-released with some added graphics.
The game was created using Gilsoft's Quill. You tell the game what you want to do by typing instructions via keyboard and the parser is based on verb / noun input.
Astroclone was published in 1984 by Hewson Consultants. Its working title was Seiclone, but was changed to avoid confusion with Vortex Software's similar-sounding Cyclone. The game combines shoot 'em up sections with arcade adventure elements that Turner had developed with Avalon (1984) and Dragontorc (1985).
Despite the same title, cover artwork and publisher the ZX Spectrum version is a different game than the ones released for the VIC-20 and Commodore 16/Plus4 .
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