User:Auric/Mindwheel

Mindwheel is a 1984 text adventure game created by Robert Pinsky for Synapse Software.

Plot
The premise of the plot is that the player is a "Mind Adventurer", who is asked to journey back through the minds of four deceased people, in order to find the "Wheel of Wisdom", to rescue the planet from its current predicament.

Copy Protection
Copy protection required players to enter a word from the user manual, a hardback book of novella length by Robert Pisky.

Technology
The game retailed for US$39.95 on a 48K disk (2 drives required) for the Atari and C-64, and US$44.95  for Macintosh. Room for 8 saves.

The game ran on the Atari 130XE and used the extra RAM feature.

The game used the BTZ ("Better Than Zork") engine, which had been developed in 1982 by Synapse programmers Cathryn Mataga (then William) and Steve Hales. This engine's parser understood about 1200 or 1500 words.

Reviews
The game received critical acclaim.