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One of the first computer games based on Tolkien's works and from
an Australian company, based on his first Middle Earth novel The Hobbit. The game
follows the book's plot very closely, as you guide Frodo's ancestor Bilbo the
hapless Hobbit and his band of equally clueless neighbors into their first grand
adventure. Most versions were sold with a paperback edition of "The Hobbit".
The game was revolutionary for its time, with vibrant graphics, big vocabulary,
and surprisingly robust NPC interaction. Unusually for a text adventure, the game
was also in real time - if you left the keyboard for too long events continued
without you. The game reached Number 1 best-selling position throughout Europe,
and was converted to most computer formats. Across all platforms, the game sold
in excess of one million copies. In the United States, it was published a few
years after its original appearance as The Hobbit Software Adventure, a much
extended and improved version. This version is the first part of The Tolkien
Software Adventure Series. The popularity of the game has inspired many parodies
of it including The Boggit, An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold, The Tebbit and
Hobbit - The True Story. In addition, there is a German simplified BASIC version
of the game called Der kleine Hobbit. |