This game is another masterpiece of the friendly neighbourhood programmers at Videlectrix the software division of the famous Homestar Runner It is a perfect satire of the adventure games we played in the early eighties. I remember playing “The Hobbit Software Adventure” for days only to see a new graphic. I think there are not many people who ever finished a REAL text adventure because you really had to have a very high frustration tolerance for this kind of entertainment. I’m sure that text adventure programmers started their parsers with witty answers to four letter words, because – sooner or later – these vocabulary was needed.
Screenshots of ‘The Hobbit’ on different systems
And ‘Thy Dungeonmaster 3’ is a perfect mimicry of those games, but funnier! (And it’s so short, even I finished it!)
And here it is Thy Dungeonman 3
If you’d still like to play ‘The Hobbit’, here’s where you can download it: Bunny Abandonware
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