Has Anyone Ever Heard of a text-adventure called ZYLL ?

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2 total messages Started by kev... Kevin Au Sun, 17 May 1992 03:42

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Author: kev... Kevin Au
Date: Sun, 17 May 1992 03:42

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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.

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.  

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.  

Just wondering if I could ever play this game again...

Thanks for any info.

-- 
Kevin Au,			kev...@acsu.buffalo.edu
(716)836-8376

Re: Has Anyone Ever Heard of a text-adventure called ZYLL ?

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Author: jdo... john doppke
Date: Sun, 17 May 1992 05:38

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In article <BoDMA...@acsu.buffalo.edu> kev...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Kevin Au) writes:
>I have been looking for this game for a long time.

I have it for PC!  I got it some years ago from IBM, but I'm not
sure if it's still available.

>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.

In fact, you can play in either competitive mode or cooperative mode
(or the obvious one-player mode).

>The objective, I think, is to gather treasures and also kill the evil
>sorcerrer-Zyll.

It was a little more specific than that.  You had to get a bunch of
Great Treasures (four, if memory serves me correctly), and then you
had to get Zyll's Black Orb.  Zyll, I think, had stolen these
treasures from a bunch of people, and so you had to defeat him (by
getting the Black Orb) and get the treasures (to restore them to these
people).

John
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                     John Doppke   |   "There's no conformity
        University of Notre Dame   |    like non-conformity"
        jdo...@darwin.cc.nd.edu   |            --Erin O'Neill

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