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Enchanted Scepters cover

1984 · Silicon Beach Software · Adventure · Point-and-click adventure

Enchanted Scepters

Enchanted Scepters is an adventure game where the player must search for the elemental sceptres of Fire, Earth, Air and Water, and return them to the forgetful Wizard who has mislaid them. It is arguably the first point-and-click adventure game.

Released
1984
Platforms
macOS
Genres
AdventurePoint-and-click adventure
Developers
Silicon Beach Software
Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Perspective
First personText
Themes
Fantasy
Engine
World Builder
Country
United States

About

Enchanted Scepters is a point-and-click adventure game released in 1984 for Macintosh. The player must find the four fire, earth, air and water scepters hidden across the Kingdom, and return them to the Wizard. The gameplay is much like a text adventure game. The screen shows a picture of the room the player is currently in and to the right is a description.

The description mentions any items that can be used or picked up by the player. The pictures change as the player moves to a new scene. There is no movement in the picture, but enemies are inserted when encountered, accompanied by sound effects. The player can then select from a drop down menu whether to flee, and which way (north, south, east or west and occasionally up or down), or to fight, with a choice of weapon.

Keywords

  • wizards

Media

Enchanted Scepters screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Legacy

In 1990, a fangame titled Lost Crystal was released that was also developed using the World Builder engine and that took up the plot of Enchanted Scepters.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
macOS31 December 1984North America

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