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Available on 16K ROM Chip and diskette or cassette. Contents: a decoding card, instructions on distracting a Madrag, card showing what the icons meant, loading instructions and game instructions, blue-print of mine workings. The accompanying documentation was obscurely worded and the game, a sophisticated platform adventure, gave few hints as to how it should be played.
The Mines of Terror, despite advertising and magazine features apparently never came out on the Spectrum or Amstrad CPC. So, any copy that may be found of that on those two formats will be very rare. It also came out on the BBC Micro.
Mines of Terror was originally released for BBC Micro in 1985. Conversions belatedly followed for C64 and Amstrad CPC in 1986. The BBC Micro edition was unusual as it required an add-on chip (supplied) to bolster the machine's memory to run the game and it was the use of a similar unit for the proposed ZX Spectrum edition that ultimately saw it cancelled, despite plentiful previews and advertising in the specialist gaming press.
The game did not start life as a Doctor Who title, but was adapted from a proposed sequel to Micro Power's Castle Quest title. It was also the last game to emerge from the publisher, with the cost of the accompanying chips and poor sales forcing them to close a few months after release.
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