User:Dramhampton/sandbox

The Seventh Star is a text adventure released by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro in 1984. The game was written by David Hampton. Like other adventure games of its era, it used text only for the screen display, but differed from its contemporaries in its use of humour and sound effects. The player navigates a city on a distant planet through the usual verb-noun commands (GET ROBOT, GO SOUTH, LIGHT CANDLE etc) and collects objects that will be useful in his/her quest to return safely home – though many items are not what they appear to be or have unexpected uses.

Help is provided through a hand-held micro-micro computer called Mu-Mu, who offers location-dependent cryptic hints. Explicit answers are obtained by typing *HELP and looking up a reference in the instruction sheet

Story
[edit] The player’s spacecraft has crash-landed on a planet known only as The Seventh Star and makes his/her way to a nearby city where there are many shops, buildings and paths to be explored. There are a number of aliens in residence, most of whom can easily be recognised as characters from popular science fiction films, and who might reluctantly agree to help (or attempt to kill) the player. External links[edit] •	The Seventh Star at EMU Paradise