

1988 · Magnetic Scrolls · Adventure · Puzzle
Fish!
Inter-Dimensional Espionage. Inter-Dimensional... because you can "warp" into the body of a living thing in this or any other dimension. Espionage...
- Released
- 1988
- Platforms
- Acorn ArchimedesAmigaAmstrad CPCAmstrad PCWAtari STAtari ST/STECommodore 64Commodore C64/128/MAXMS-DOSZX SpectrummacOS
- Genres
- AdventurePuzzleText adventure
- Developers
- Magnetic Scrolls
- Publishers
- —
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Text
- Themes
- ThrillerComedyMystery
- Country
- United Kingdom
About
Fish! is a text adventure game by Magnetic Scrolls released in 1988. The game was designed by John Molloy, Phil South and Peter Kemp with contributions by Rob Steggles.
Keywords
- interactive fiction
- crime
Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The game is a standard text adventure with static graphics in some versions.
The game was re-released as part of the Magnetic Scrolls Collection, featuring a GUI with an auto-map system, inventory, and pop-down menus.
Story
According to the game scenario, the Inter-Dimensional Espionage sends operatives throughout the dimensions to fight evil. This is done by possessing someone's body and controlling his actions.
The player is Agent 10 who enjoys his leave of absence in the body of a goldfish. He learns that an inter-dimensional terrorist group named the Seven Deadly Fins have stolen a focus wheel. In the first part of the game, the player can visit three dimensions (a forest with a smithy, a hippie van near an abbey and a recording studio).
Reception
The game was voted Best 16-bit Adventure Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.
Keith Campbell of Computer and Video Games wrote that Fish! was "like no other adventure I've played before", and that it is "the most pun packed adventure ever." He praised the humor and cited the game as another example of Magnetic Scrolls "cleaning up on the adventure scene this year." 64, Kati Hamza wrote, "Every Magnetic Scrolls adventure gets praised to the skies, wins a thousand awards and gets an incredibly high mark in all the magazines.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- The Magnetic Scrolls Collection
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Collections5 collections
Platform libraries
- Mac gamesF
- Amstrad PCW games
- Atari ST gamesCommercial games
- ZX Spectrum games
Genres
- Text-based gamesOn personal computers › Commercial text adventure games
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