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[Great Britain]CRL Group PLC

Based in King's Yard, London. It was run by Clement Chambers and Ian Ellery. CRL actually stands for Computer Rentals Ltd.

The address of St. Bride's School is St. Bride's School, Burtonport, Co. Donegal, Ireland.

They distribute Delta 4 Software.


Dracula

Type:
Bitmap graphics/Music Written 1986 by Rod Pike in The Quill.
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Comments: Written in the first person. This was the first adventure game to be awarded a film censorship rating (15 years) in Britain. Divided into three parts: the first contains the journey to the castle, the second Jonathan Harker's experiences in the castle, and the third the killing of the count after his journey to England.


The Very Big Cave Adventure

Type:
Bitmap graphics Written 1986 by St. Bride's School in The Quill and The Illustrator.
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Notes: Divided into two parts.


Jack the Ripper

Type:
Bitmap graphics Written 1988 by St. Bride's School.
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Notes: In three parts.

Comments: CRL tries to outdo Rod Pike's Dracula (released by themselves!) in gory details. 3 parts follows a man on the run, because people think he is Jack the Ripper, who is on the loose killing prostitutes in London.


Murder off Miami

Type:
Bitmap graphics Written 1987 by Fergus McNeill and Jason Somerville.
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Causes of Chaos

Type:
Text only Written by Mike Taylor in Compiled Basic.
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Comments: "I believe it was the first multi-player adventure for the Commodore 64, though this had to be achieved by the players taking turns. In all honesty, I doubt anyone really played it like that, but it was a good single-player adventure anyway."


Pilgrim

Type:
Text only Written 1986 by Rod Pike in The Quill.
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Comments: Post-nuclear war setting has player trying to reach the end, where he discovers something called Earth.


Wolfman

Type:
Text only Written 1988 by Rod Pike in The Quill.
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Comments: Man wakes up to discover that he has just slaughtered a young girl - he is the Wolfman! He must make his way to a faraway temple where he can be cured. In sections of the 3 parts, you control his newfound love interest instead of him.


Frankenstein

Type:
Text only Written 1987 by Rod Pike in GAC.
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Notes: In three parts.

Comments: Based on the book (with Pike's usual high gore quotient!) In three parts, of which the last (very fascinating) part takes the monsters viewpoint, from creation till death.


The Secret of St. Brides

Type:
Text only/Drawn graphics/Music Written 1985 by Priscilla Langridge in The Quill & The Illustrator.
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Comments: A girl is taken back in time to a 1920's girl school and must escape across the countryside. Strange game, this one (elephants in the basement etc.)


Bugsy

Type:
Drawn graphics Written 1986 by Priscilla Langridge in Quill.
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Comments: Humorous 2-parter follows the adventures of Bugsy, a small-time mobster rabbit (!) trying to bribe, steal and blackmail his way to the top of the "Public Enemy"-list in 1920's Chicago.

Package blurb:

[outer side of the inlay:]

Hi kid. I hear ya got a computer at home. Real nice computer. Shame if anything should happen to it.

Stop staring, kid. I don't like bein' stared at. Aintcha never talked to a three-foot-high blue rabbit before?

Anyway, like I wuz sayin' -- ain't nuthin' gonna happen ta dat nice computer of yours. Not if ya take advantage of my offer. First of all I wantcha ta buy dis game. Den I wantcha ta load it up. Den I wantcha ta help me ta take over all da mobs in Chicago.

Don't worry, it don't involve nuthin' illegal. Not unless ya count the odd bit of theft, extortion, murder, robbery, bribery an' corruption an' that sorta thing.

Right now I got nuthin'. No cash. Not even a gun. I wanna run da biggest gang in town. I wanna drive fancy cars an' live in plush hotels. I wanna be Public Enemy No. 1 in place of dat fat wimp Capone.

It ain't much to ask. Not if ya wanna keep dat computer healthy.

YA WANNA STAY HEALTHY -- YA BUY IT

[inner side of the inlay:]

BUGSY INTRODUCES DA GAME (The girls wanted to do this bit, but how can you refuse a cute little rabbit with a machine gun?)

Okay youse joiks! Lissen up an' lissen good.

My name's Bugsy. Bugsy Maroon. I'm a pale blue rabbit some three feet in height wit' a cute little powder-puff tail. But that don't mean I ain't as tough as pickled walnuts 'cuz I am.

I live in Chicago in 1922 and my aim in life is to take over the mobs an' become Public Enemy No. 1 in place of that fat wimp Capone.

I ain't averse ta takin' some advice frum keyboard-bashin' computer buffs providin' they watch their lip wit' me. But I'm gonna warn ya right off -- it ain't gonna be easy.

Ya gotta help me woik my way up from a penniless street bunny ta the dizzy heights of a crimelord. Startin' wit' petty theft an' small-time protection rackets I gotta make the money ta buy guns, hire boys an' build up a serious mob. An' if ya t'ink the other mobs is just gonna sit around an' let me do it you're a sucker. The cops might be a minor problem too.

Dere's also da problem of -- uh -- gettin' anyone ta take me seriously.

Da game feechers a great new menu-driven conversation system which means ya can get me inta smart-mouth conversations wit' any of the various characters in da game. You'll believe a rabbit can shoot his mouth off.

In order ta succeed in da game I gotta not only build da gang, pull off da jobs an' get my paws on da big money -- I also gotta acquire da status symbols of da successful crimeboss. Big cars, a swell place ta live, ya know da sorta thing.

Da racket business is just like da software business. If ya wanna be successful, ya gotta get in da charts. It's gonna be a big day when I foist make it ta Public Enemy No. 10, but I ain't gonna be happy, 'till I'm right up dere at No. 1, knockin' fatso off his perch.

Okay, I guess I flapped my mouth long enough. Now let's get in dere an' start doin' business.



The Book of the Dead

Written 1987.
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Notes: In two parts.


Loads of Midnight

Type:
Drawn graphics Written 1987 by Penna Productions (Keith Hughes).
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Notes: In three parts.


The Tomb of Dracula

Written 1983.
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The Woods of Winter

Type:
Bitmap graphics Written 1984 by Andrew Patrick.
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Here is a review of The Woods of Winter


Federation

Type:
Text only Written 1988 by Smart Egg Software (Michael White).
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The Great Detective

Written by P. Rolfe.
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Incredible Adventure

Written 1984 by A. Trenker.
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The War of the Worlds

Type:
Bitmap graphics/BG/CHOISE/SOUND/Sound Written 1984 by Nigel Taylor.
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Here is a review of The War of the Worlds


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