Artic Software
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In the early 1980s, Artic Software, also known as Artic Computing was a software development company based in Brandesburton near Hull, responsible for various ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC computer games. The company was set up by Richard Turner and Chris Thornton - the name ARTIC being made up their initials. Charles Cecil who later founded Revolution Software joined the company shortly after it was founded, writing Adventures B through D. Developer Jon Ritman produced many of their games.
Initially packaging and distributing games themselves, some titles were picked up by Sinclair, who repackaged them with the Sinclair brand.
Adventures A through D were written for the ZX81 but were quickly ported to the ZX Spectrum platform on its release. By comparison to other Spectrum adventure games available at the same time (e.g. The Hobbit), they are rather basic.
Games
- Adventure A: Planet of Death (1981)
- Adventure B: Inca Curse (1981)
- Adventure C: Ship of Doom (1982)
- Adventure D: Espionage Island (1982)
- Adventure E: The Golden Apple (1983)
- Adventure F: The Eye of Bain (1984)
- Adventure G: Ground Zero (1984)
- Adventure H: Robin Hood (1985)
- Bear Bovver (1983)
- Paws (1985)
Trivia
- Most Artic adventure games featured a maze of some sort. The way out followed directions which would return the player to the same place (North, South, East, West in Planet of Death / South, East, West, North in Espionage Island)
- The parser in their adventures was of a basic 2-word design. Other developers later produced multiple word parsers, as featured in games by Infocom and Magnetic Scrolls.
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