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From: hamrag@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Humbug Software")
Subject: Snowball (was RE: Adventure History...)
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Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 23:12:40 GMT
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> >Snowball
> >[TO/DG] For Amiga [DG], Amstrad [TO], Atari 8-bit [TO], BBC [TO], 
> >Commodore 64 [TO], Lynx [TO], Memotech MSX [TO], NASCOM [TO], Oric 1 
> >[TO], Spectrum 48K [TO].  I don't think this was meant to be part one 
> >of a trilogy from the start either.  Snowball had more than 7000 
> >rooms.
> 
> *7000* rooms?!  Has anyone played this?  What are these "rooms" like?  I
> can't imgaine playing something this big, much less writing it.  Even if
> you spent 10 minutes per room, it would take 48 continuous days of work
> to
> write this.  Are most of the rooms of the
> 
>       This is a room.  There is nothing here.
>       EXITS: ...
> 
> style?
> 
> Dave Baggett

Yup, I've played (and - rare for me - finished it!).  Snowball is set on 
a huge spaceship, which contains a planet's population in cryogenic 
suspension.  Most of the 7000 rooms were large chambers with hundreds of 
frozen citizens sitting in each wall.  Each room was colour coded as I 
remember (I think there were lights in the wall: blue, amber, orange 
etc..).

One of the puzzles involved reviving one of the other passengers (you had 
the colour co-ordinations and the pod number).

Robotic nightingales patrolled the corridors.. spooky.

All in all I thought it was a fantastic game (and I pinched one of the 
puzzles for my shareware game Jacaranda Jim! 8-) ).  If you play Jim, 
enter the church and you'll see a mural with a snowball on it.  My little 
homage.

Graham
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Graham Cluley          hamrag@cix.compulink.co.uk
Humbug Software
43 Old Mill Gardens    Author of shareware adventures
Berkhamsted Herts UK   HUMBUG and JACARANDA JIM.
