The Hobbit for the Sinclair Spectrum

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The Hobbit

Year of Release

1983

The Advertising Blurb

Step into the future:

VISIT MIDDLE EARTH WITH YOUR SPECTRUM.

Compatibility

48K / 128K

Original Price

£14.95

Worth now (confirmed sale)?

£15 Facebook November 2023

Comments

The packaging Included a free copy of the book by JRR Tolkein.

Controls

Text Input

Original Rating

Sinclair User 5/5

Review:

The Hobbit was probably responsible for the sales of more memory chips and 48K Spectrums than any other game or serious program. If you were to be taken seriously as an adventurer then you had to have managed to escape from the Goblin's Dungeon.

Recognised as an absolute masterpiece when first released, no other adventure game has ever made as much impact on any computer. The interactive characters helped give the game a style all of its own, even if they tended to wander off and do their own thing. Even the bugs, and there were many, were highly entertaining and widely reported. A game that was ahead of its time and still holds a certain charm now. Sheer brilliance and a game that can be regarded as a milestone in computer history, let alone a fine Spectrum game!

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