Excerpts from "The Spectrum of Adventure" (Part 5) by Thomas A. Christie
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In this section: "The Very Big Cave Adventure" by St Bride's School for CRL Group (1986)Excerpts from "The Spectrum of Adventure" by Thomas A. ChristieThe Sinclair ZX Spectrum was one of the most popular home computers in British history, selling over five million units in its 1980s heyday.Amongst the thousands of titles released for the Spectrum during its lifetime, the text adventure game was to emerge as one of the most significant genres on the system.Covering 100 games in all, this book celebrates the Spectrum’s thriving interactive fiction scene of the eighties, chronicling the achievements of major publishers as well as independent developers from the machine’s launch in 1982 until the end of the decade in 1989."The Spectrum of Adventure" is Copyright ©2016 Thomas A. Christie, all rights reserved, and is published by Extremis Publishing Ltd.This title is available as a physical book from www.extremispublishing.com and all good online retailers and independent booksellers worldwide.

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Listen to "Crystalline": https://xoefflo.fanlink.to/crystalline Produced by FERRO Directed by Martin LaFrenièreFollow https://www.xoefflo.com https://www.instagram.com/xoefflo https://www.facebook.com/xoefflo https://twitter.com/xoefflo https://www.youtube.com/xoefflo https://spoti.fi/2N5VWNe https://apple.co/2N5VUoA==-LYRICS== (lying to me, I was lying to me) (lying to me, I was lying to me) (lying to me, I was lying to me) Begging you to hate me back Kept leaving out the same old trap But the meat's gone bad Used to think you held me back Fading away I was fading away Realized the darkness was me So I lit up my head Filaments glowing so sweet And now I see Look into my mind Crystalline Beauty in the spots where I’ve been blind So clear Look into my mind It’s crystalline Look into my mind


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