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The Hobbit: A Software Adventure

The Hobbit: A Software Adventure (1982)

by Beam Software, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Melbourne House

Genres:Adventure

Themes:Fantasy

Game modes:Single player

Story:A ground breaking text-adventure video game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

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February 08, 2025

Jeu textuel en anglais auquel j'ai joué sur Amstrad CPC 6128 J'ai adoré y jouer, en tatônnant puisque je ne connaissais que trois mots d'anglais... Les illustrations étaient sympas, une bonne récompense pour l'avancée dans le jeu. J'ai découvert après qu'elles étaient réalisées d'après les dessins originaux de Tokien. Je n'ai pas pu finir le jeu à l'époque à cause d'un bug, j'y rejouerai avec plaisir !

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March 21, 2025

Truly a terrible game, even for its time, in that it was actually impossible to complete due to a bug in the programming (at least in the IBM-PC version I had). Hard to imagine how this got shipped when a playtester with a walkthrough could otherwise have completed the entire game in 30 minutes or so. Perhaps someone just sent the wrong floppy disk to the publisher. I don't know if a fixed version was ever released. Also annoyingly your companions Thorin and Gandalf operated with their own rather random pseudo-AI, wandering in and out of rooms and often getting themselves killed out of view. It did loosely follow the plot of the book. On the plus side, it came with an actual physical paperback copy of 'The Hobbit' in the box, which was my introduction to the works of Tolkien when I was still quite young, and which still sits on my shelf 40 years later, though the game it came with is long gone. Imagine a game manual/hint guide that is 287 pages long! It would be interesting if GOG could replicate that via digital assets, if nothing else.

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April 25, 2025

I remember my first approach to this game.... Gandalf came, I opened the door for him.... I didn't know English very well, so I wrote ‘run’. And I ran. I ran several times. And what? I got eaten by wolves or something. Game 10/10

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