Time Machine
- Genres
- Puzzle Adventure
- Platforms
- Commodore C64/128/MAX · Amiga · Amstrad CPC · ZX Spectrum · Atari ST/STE
- Release
- Atari ST/STE Nov 1990 Exact Amiga 1990 Month only Amstrad CPC 1990 Month only Commodore C64/128/MAX 1990 Month only ZX Spectrum 1990 Month only
- Credits
- VI Vivid Image
- Board status
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About
The Time Machine is the second in the Mysterious Adventure series of text adventures by Brian Howarth. You are a newspaper reporter, come to investigate the eccentric professor who lives all by himself out on the moors. When you get there, you find the place deserted though. Ultimately you must rescue the professor by finding 3 missing prisms which control his time machine, which are lost in time. As the other games in the series, the game uses an interpreter similar to the Scott Adams adventure engine, and thus also has the same limitations - a basic 2-word parser, limited vocabulary, and brief descriptions. Illustrations are included in ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Dragon and Oric ports.
