Game Classification

Mystery House On-Line Systems (Roberta and Ken Williams) (U.S.A.), On-Line Systems (U.S.A.), 1980  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Adventure - Detective - Interactive fiction - Mystery - Puzzle-solving

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Storytelling

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick WRITE : explanation of this brick
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Mystery House Mystery House is a 1980 game for the Apple II by Roberta and Ken Williams. Although it had no sound, no color, and no animation, it did have one feature that would make it part of computer gaming history: graphics. This feature caused GamePro to name Mystery House the 51st most important game of all time, twenty-seven years after the game's release. [source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Apple II - Atari 800 - Browser (Flash) - Commodore 64 - TI-99/4A

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