🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BoH5rt.FA6@acsu.buffalo.edu>
kevinau@acsu.buffalo.edu (Kevin Au) writes:
 
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>I have been looking for this game for a long time.  It is a text-adventure game
>that's kind of like Zork, only that it uses real time (i.e. you'll get killed
>during combat if you just stand there and do nothing).  Also it has a 2-player
>option, so that the screen splits in two halfs (left and right), and both playercan play at the same time and help each other.
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>Player can chose some standard equipments before the start (e.g. chain-mail or
>plate-mail..., sword or axe..., potions, scrolls...).  And players start out as
>wizards.
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>The objective, I think, is to gather treasures and also kill the evil sorcerrer-
>Zyll.  This is really a fun game for all those features (esp. two-player mode),
>and the last time I played it was around 1984.  I don't know which company makesit.
I remember Zyll.  IBM used to sell, separate from the regular commercial
software, a line of stuff written by various staff members on their own
time.  I don't remember the name of the IBM division that was selling
this stuff, though.  Or for that matter, I don't know if that division
still exists.