It took forty years, but a piece of interactive fiction created for a 16-bit minicomputer in the early 1980s has finally been completed.
Ferreta text adventure similar to Zorkbegan development in 1982 for Data General Nova. The game was put together by a group of software engineers in the UK. Ferret received a full final functional version only in August of this year, according to a post on the game’s Facebook community.
Ferret is a great adventure, with 1,785 rooms, thousands of objects to interact with and nearly 400 verbs to try. Just to compare, the original Zork has 60 objects and 110 rooms, while A Mind Forever Voyaging has 30 objects and 178 rooms. In short, it seems that it takes a long time to finish a game of this magnitude.
If you are a fan of text games, you should know that the title is free to download, but unfortunately it activates the antivirus software due to the copying of files in protected directories. To overcome this problem, blogger and fan of text games Jason Dyer has created an essential version with the installation elements removed, which you can find by clicking here.
Source: PCGamer
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