 ![[Great Britain]](images/flags/uk_britn.gif) Artic Computing
They were located at 396 James Reckitt Avenue, Hull HU8 0JA, England.
All their games had a two word parser and used a small game driver.
There are inofficial sites about Artic Computing:
 Adventure 'A' (Planet of Death)
Written 1981 in Machine code.
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Comments: Escape from the alien planet.
Package blurb: In this Adventure you find yourself stranded on an alien
planet. Your aim is to escape from this planet by finding
your, now captured and disabled, Space Ship.
You will meet various hazards and dangers on your adventure,
some natural, some not, all of which you must overcome to
succeed.
 Adventure 'B' (Inca Curse)
Type: Text only
Written 1981 by Charles Cecil in Machine code.
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Package blurb: In the ADVENTURE you find yourself in a South American
Jungle, near an, as yet, undisturbed INCA Temple. Inside this
temple you will find lots of treasure, your aim is still to
get as much treasure as you can. Beware, do not let greed be
your downfall. Your adventure is complete when you have
returned to the jungle clearing with the treasure. The
highest score to date for treasure is 3200 points.
 Adventure 'C' (The Alien Space Ship Adventure) / The Ship of Doom
Written 1982 by Charles Cecil.
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Package blurb: In Adventure 'C' while on a reconnaissance flight your ship
has been drawn by a Graviton Beam onto an Alien Cruiser.
Fred, your pet android, informs you that the cruiser is on a
Humanoid slave mission, its aim to seek out Humanoid planets
from which samples are taken and their brains replaced with
microchips.
Your aim is to free your ship by pressing the control button
in the main computer room. Sounds easy. However, there are
various hazards.
 Adventure 'D' (Espionage Island)
Written 1982.
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Comments: Observe some enemy skullduggery, then escape.
 Adventure 'E' (The Golden Apple)
Type: Drawn graphics
Written 1983 by Simon Wadsworth.
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Notes: This game introduced graphics and had a slightly better
parser.
Comments: Find the 13 treasures.
 Adventure 'F' (Eye of Bain)
Type: Drawn graphics
Written 1984 by Simon Wadsworth.
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Notes: This was the final 'Artic Adventure' to be released.
Comments: http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/033/sftwre.htm
Here is a review of Adventure 'F' (Eye of Bain)
Adventure 'H' (Robin Hood)
Type: Drawn graphics
Written 1985 by Nigel McGee in The Quill and The Illustrator.
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Curse of the 7 Faces
Type: Text only
Written 1985 by Imperial Software (Alan McDonald).
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Comments: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimg/yr13/yr13_25.htm
Here is a review of Curse of the 7 Faces
Dead at the Controls
Type: Drawn graphics
Written 1985 by Dave Stone.
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Comments: After crash-landing on a strange planet, you must try to
escape.
 Ground Zero
Type: Text only
Written 1984 by Colin Smith in The Quill.
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Notes: Colin Smith was a former journalist who sold his house in Dorset to
raise capital for the launch of the game.
Comments: Unusually serious adventure about surviving a nuclear war.
Kingdom of Speldome
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