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The Girl Who Was Death

Stephen Preston · 1986

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Archive notes

Initially released through the Prisoner Appreciation Society, Six of One.#"This adventure is probably my best achievement and was actually written over 18 months without much break. The game got so large that it had to be divided into two parts, with a data loader allowing the user to bring his time used and inventory over from part 1. Originally each part was on either side of a cassette. Overall the game added up to something like 92K of data, huge at the time! The game was positively reviewed by a couple of magazines at the time, but the greatest thing for me was beating the Scott Adams score for his latest adventure - for it was Adventureland on the Vic 20 (owned by Gareth Davies!) back in 1981 that first introduced me to the concept of the adventure game, one which I found thoroughly exciting. Looking back, the game could have been a lot better. It is linear in its strategy, and follows the adventure of the Prisoner episode it is based on very strictly. As such it is atmospheric and faithful, but loses flexibility and mystery. The input syntax is also a little limiting. Despite all this, it retain a lot of charm and proved popular with fans of the series."

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The Girl Who Was Death

1986 · Stephen Preston · ££6.50

Runnable

Tapes, snapshots and disks — these boot in the emulator.

  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe_DeletedScene-FairgroundMusic.z80.zip

    (non-TZX) Z80 snapshot · zipped

    z80
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe_In-gamePictures.z80.zip

    (non-TZX) Z80 snapshot · zipped

    z80
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe(different).tzx.zip

    Perfect TZX TAP tape · zipped

    tzx
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe.tzx.zip

    Perfect TZX TAP tape · zipped

    tzx
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThePart1.z80.zip

    (non-TZX) Z80 snapshot · zipped

    z80
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThePart2.z80.zip

    (non-TZX) Z80 snapshot · zipped

    z80
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThePart2loaded.z80.zip

    (non-TZX) Z80 snapshot · zipped

    z80

Screens & scans

Loading screens, in-game captures, inlays and maps.

  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe_UnusedLoadingScreen.gif

    Picture

    gif
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe_UnusedLoadingScreen.scr

    SCR file

    scr
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe.jpg

    Picture

    jpg
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe.jpg

    Picture

    jpg
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe.gif

    Picture

    gif
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe.scr

    Screen dump

    scr
  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe_2.scr

    Screen dump

    scr

Documents

Instructions, notes and everything else held in the archive.

  • GirlWhoWasDeathThe.txt

    Text document

    txt

Walkthroughs & reviews