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Hunchback: The Adventure
As they went on to demonstrate with Nightbreed, Ocean wasn't afraid to try a few different approaches to licensed material once they'd gotten their mitts on it, which is how you explain following up not one…
Hunchback: The Adventure is an adventure developed by Ocean Software, released 31 December 1986 on Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
What Hunchback: The Adventure is
Hunchback: The Adventure is an adventure game developed by Ocean Software and released in 1986. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
As they went on to demonstrate with Nightbreed, Ocean wasn't afraid to try a few different approaches to licensed material once they'd gotten their mitts on it, which is how you explain following up not one but two run-and-jump platform games with a text adventure game -- the change in approach a breath of fresh air and, perhaps, a response to critics suggesting that rehashing the same old thing is getting tired and stale. Many arcade games of the period would have a hard time with the transition, lacking enough of a skeleton of plot to flesh out with characters and events, but the Hunchback franchise has always enjoyed descent from one of the greatest works of French fiction (not…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Hunchback of Notre-Dame series
Hunchback: The Adventure is the third of 10 entries we hold in the The Hunchback of Notre-Dame series. It arrived 2 years after Hunchback II: Quasimodo's Revenge. The next entry was Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Topsy Turvy Games in 1996.
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What it launched against
Hunchback: The Adventure launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Rebelstar.
Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Rebelstar.
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