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1988 · Adventure

Wolfman

1988 video game

Released
1988
Platforms
Amstrad CPCCommodore 64Commodore C64/128/MAXZX Spectrum
Genres
Adventure
Developers
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Publishers
CRL Group
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
First personText
Themes
Horror
Country
United Kingdom

About

Wolfman is a text adventure video game released by CRL in 1988 for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum home computers.

Keywords

  • interactive fiction

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The game is a standard text adventure with graphics in some locations to set the scene. It is in three parts, with the player in the role of the Wolfman in the first and third, and of his fiancée in the second.

Story

After a heavy sleep the protagonist awakes to find his clothes ripped and bloody, yet no sign of injury to himself. Glancing through a window, he sees the body of a dead girl lying nearby, her throat has been torn out. He then realizes that he is in reality a werewolf, and must escape violent retribution by enraged villagers and somehow find a cure for his illness. After falling in love with a young woman named Nadia, the protagonist must rescue her when she is kidnapped while continuing to seek a cure for his lycanthropy.

Reception

As with the earlier CRL adventures Dracula, Frankenstein, and Jack the Ripper, the game was classified by the British Board of Film Censors, receiving an '18' certificate for its gory graphics.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Amstrad CPC31 December 1988Europe
ZX Spectrum31 December 1988Europe
Commodore C64/128/MAX31 December 1988Europe

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