Title : The Hobbit
Publisher : Melbourne House
Release Year: 1982
No. Players: 1
Entry Type: Adventure: Text
Machine Type: ZX-Spectrum 48K
Availability: Available
Comments: 2nd place in the C&VG; 1983 Golden Joystick Awards - Game of the Year 1983.#Winner of the C&VG; 1983 Golden Joystick Awards - Best Strategy Game.#There also was {book|2000171}.#This was the first Spectrum game ever to sell a million copies.#Veronika remembers: "It was never released in the US, because some company owned the rights to the pictures, and wouldn't let us license it there.#On the funny side - in a pre-release version I'd written in an angry dwarf that kept trying to kill you, and if you did something (I don't remember what) it became a randy dwarf, and kept following you around and propositioning you. But Fred and Phil decided that was a little too much, and made me take it out again."
Updated On : May 25, 2020
Roles :
Features:
- Bookware
Competition Entry: C&VG; 1983 Golden Joystick Awards
Known Errors: In the original version 1.1 of the game it was impossible to kill the dragon. That's because you couldn't go east from the town in the middle of the Long Lake. This has been corrected in version 1.2, mind. It sounds like it was a slight fault in the routine where you must ask Elrond to read the map for you, and the route he tells you about is only actually filled in on the map at that point. If you don't have him read the map to you then the route won't exist. The way to spot the difference between the versions is that the names of the programmers have been added on the loading screen for 1.2.##(Ian Ormesher in Your Sinclair issue 5 page 62)
Publisher | Price |
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Melbourne House | £14.95 |
Sinclair Research Ltd |
Download and Play
Play | File | File Type | Protection Scheme | Year |
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Melbourne House - Original release - Perfect TZX TAP tape | Tape image | None | 1982 | |
Melbourne House - Original release - Perfect TZX TAP tape | Tape image | None | 1982 | |
Melbourne House - Original release - Perfect TZX TAP tape | Tape image | None | 1982 | |
Melbourne House - (non-TZX) TAP tape image | Tape image | Undetermined | 1982 | |
Melbourne House - (non-TZX) TAP tape image | Tape image | Undetermined | 1982 | |
Sinclair Research Ltd - Re-release - Perfect TZX TAP tape | Tape image | None | 1982 |
Additional Files
File | File Type |
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Melbourne House - Screen dump | Loading screen |
Melbourne House - Picture | Running screen |
Melbourne House - Text document | Instructions |
Melbourne House - Picture | Game map |
Melbourne House - Picture | Game map |
Melbourne House - Picture | Game map |
Melbourne House - Picture | Cassette inlay |
Melbourne House - Picture | Cassette inlay |
Melbourne House - Picture | Advertisement |
Melbourne House - Picture | Advertisement |
Melbourne House - Picture | Instructions |
Melbourne House - Picture | ? |
Melbourne House - Picture | ? |
Melbourne House - Picture | ? |
Melbourne House - Picture | ? |
Sinclair Research Ltd - Picture | Re-release cassette inlay | https://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/h/hobbit.rzx | RZX Archive |