Cranston Manor
Cranston Manor is a graphic adventure published for the Apple II by On-Line Systems in 1981 and is Hi-Res Adventure #3. The player must invade a mansion that was occupied by a millionaire and steal the sixteen treasures that are inside of it. The game allows players to switch between graphics-based and text-based gameplay.
Cranston Manor
- Model
- Hi-Res Adventure
- Date
- 1981
- Genre
- adventure video game
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Cranston Manor is a graphic adventure published for the Apple II by On-Line Systems in 1981 and is Hi-Res Adventure #3. The player must invade a mansion that was occupied by a millionaire and steal the sixteen treasures that are inside of it. The game allows players to switch between graphics-based and text-based gameplay.
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Based on Larry Ledden's text adventure The Cranston Manor Adventure. The graphical version was programmed by Ledden, Ken Williams, and Harold DeWitz.
Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Cranston Manor • Developer — On-Line Systems • Publisher — On-Line Systems • Designer — Larry Ledden Harold DeWitz Ken Williams • Series — Hi-Res Adventures • Engine — ADL • Genre — Graphic adventure • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Apple II, FM-7, PC-88, PC-98
Development
Development
Larry Ledden wrote The Cranston Manor Adventure as text-only interactive fiction for the Atari 8-bit computers. It was published by Artworx in 1981. Sierra On-Line acquired the rights from Ledden to create a graphical version which was published as Cranston Manor for the Apple II. Ledden was paid royalties, but did not receive credit in Sierra's version.
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1981
Cranston Manor published.
1981
Cranston Manor is recorded as published in 1981.
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- 1.Softalk Presents the Bestsellers. Softalk. 116. September 1981.
- 2.ASCII Corporation. NewSoft: クランストン・マナー (Cranston Manor). Login (ログイン). 14. November 1983.
- 3.1983年10月発売のソフト (Software released in October 1983). Game Preservation Society.
- 4.Hague, James. The Giant list of Classic Game Programmers.
- 5.On-Line Systems. Cranston Manor manual. Museum of Computer Adventure Game History. 1981.
- 6.Cranston Manor Adventure. Museum of Computer Game History.
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